#google-ai-mode

#google-ai-mode

This week, I covered the ongoing Google August 2025 spam update and how it heated up this week. Google got into hot water over saying the web is rapidly declining. Google AI Mode also said AI Mode would be the default, and then backtracked on that statement as well. Google AI Mode expanded beyond the English language. Google is showing AI Mode in the search suggestions autocomplete.

Robby Stein, Google Search VP of Product, announced on X on Friday that users can now open Google's new AI Mode by going directly to google.com/ai. Minutes later, Logan Kilpatrick - the lead product manager for DeepMind, Gemini, and all of Google's AI products - took things one step further: Responding to a user who commented that AI Mode "must be the default" for Google Search, Kilpatrick responded that the change would indeed roll out "soon."

Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this after Google made google.com/ai go directly to AI Mode's interface on Friday afternoon. This was announced on X at around 7pm ET on Friday. Here are those posts: soon : )- Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) September 5, 2025

Robby Stein from Google wrote on X, "We're seeing big improvements for complex STEM questions." He said he was "Very excited about this week's AI Mode model update." It is great for back to school, he added. The changes are that the responses should be "tighter, easier to scan and get to the point up front before elaborating," he explained.

AI Mode for search, which essentially allows Gemini to serve as the sifter of SERPs instead of the old-fashioned Google algorithm, became an opt-in preview feature in March before rolling out as an option to general Google users in May. For those who haven't deigned to use it, AI Mode basically turns the Google search page into a chat window where users can ask typical queries and get results delivered from a Gemini-powered chatbot that one has to assume isn't bullshitting them,

Jordi Ribas stated, "They're both excellent AI search products but we're taking a different approach for some query segments." He provided an example where Microsoft Copilot yielded richer answer cards for follow-up queries compared to Google AI Mode.

Jes Scholz pointed out that Google has two distinct AI Modes: one in Chrome and another in the Google App, leading to different sources being displayed based on the platform.