By Blake Montgomery
Publication Date: 2026-05-20 00:03:00
Google announced Tuesday that it will add a hefty dose of artificial intelligence to its iconic search bar, the centerpiece of the world’s most visited website. The tech giant is also trying its hand at high-tech eyewear again, more than a decade after wearers of its first glasses were called “glassholes” and laughed at in San Francisco.
Google executives announced at the company’s annual conference for software developers, Google I/O, that the search box would allow for longer and more specific queries than before – questions that more closely resemble what these people would ask each other than the idiosyncratic syntax of search. The changes will entice users to interact directly with Google’s chatbot. The search change is underpinned by the company’s new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3.5, announced the same day.
Executives said Gemini would make longer text predictions based on what users have already typed than is currently the case. An everyday Google search can also…
