- Google has updated its AI mode for search
- AI mode can now analyze PDF and images, and use Search Live to analyze video content
- AI mode has also added the canvas function
Google has improved its AI mode in search of a lot of new features clearly aimed at encouraging people tempted by AI tools in other places to stay.
AI mode is already different from the traditional search in which it establishes a more complete answer to your consultation by sending multiple related questions based on your initial message. Then you can ask for follow -up and adjust the thrust of your search.
With the new updates, AI mode is more a multifaceted tool to learn and organize information. The most notable update immediately is that now you can load PDF and images in your desktop mode and ask nuanced questions about them.
In the mobile, Google already allows you to use AI mode to ask questions about photos or screenshots. But making it available to desktop users means that you can load complete slide decks of a class or drag on a PDF of a book and roast the AI on the content as if it were an unpaid guardian. And the model not only responds according to your file; It will refer the web to give answers that fit the context of its load and are backed by sources and links.
Canvas planning
In case you cannot do all its deep dives in a single search, the new canvas function offers users to a longer term option to organize information. The canvas appears as a side panel in AI mode that allows it to create and edit projects in multiple sessions. It is no different from the canvas function for chatgpt, or in fact the gemini canvas tool on which it is clearly based. Think about it as a cross between a collaborative document and a study planner.
You can start with a notice about a long -term project to learn something, then press the create canvas button and see the article of the together a draft, organize resources and answer the follow -up questions as it modifies or explains its objectives. In addition, you can continue to return to him even if he closes the tab. The continuity is crucial if you want to do more than a simple tradition of Google that ends when the window closes.
Google also has canvas plans to admit its own file loads, so it will absorb some of the skills of the general tools of AI mode. In fact, it seems that the AI mode will eventually seem like Notebooklm, although, for now, not with podcasts built by AI.
Search live
The third and possibly more futuristic update to the AI mode is the live search. If the canvas is about thinking in the long term, the live search is for real -time responses.
Find Live Incrusts Google Lens with Google’s AI AI project to provide answers based on the video that shows it. Using the search live, you can point out the camera of your phone in any problem from a mathematics equation on a page to a bad behavior device and start asking AI questions while filming. Chamber feed becomes the context of AI responses, since he uses what he is seeing and saying that he responds with solutions, and links as if he were faceting a friend with all the answers.
This type of live aid could make people rethink what they expect from AI tools in terms of precision and immediacy. Instead of a blank search box, he is looking at something, talking about it and delivering useful responses immediately.
That trend continues with Google Lens updates arriving in Chrome. Google is changing the address bar so that when you click on it, you will be offered the option to “ask Google about this page” and get answers on any website, PDF, slide or other content is open in Chrome. You can even obtain descriptions of any section that stands out. Then you can take advantage of AI mode to deepen, essentially using the website as a starting point for a deeper project.
It is possible that all these changes do not seem revolutions during the night, but they could be the basis of a new way of thinking about the search. And as the chatbots of AI invade what once was Google’s indisputable leadership when looking for things online, the company is undoubtedly looking for competitive responses and, in the process, delivering updates to search for ia as these updates to us.
