Google Search is bringing its AI Mode feature - its AI-powered search experience - to Spanish-speaking users, the company announced on Tuesday. This expansion will introduce Google's conversational search interface to a broader market, allowing users to ask questions using natural language queries, engage in back-and-forth conversations, upload images, dig deeper on complex topics, and more. The Spanish-language rollout comes on the heels of Google's major AI Mode expansion in August, when the company released the feature to 180 more countries worldwide.
Google is testing moving your query from the left top position to the right top position of the AI response within AI Mode. This is a subtle change but it is interesting to see Google test these small changes to AI Mode. This change was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted some screenshots of this on X. Normally that query is on the left, and not shaded in a box, but here, the query is on the right and shaded on a box.
Google AI Mode has had travel planning for some time but according to some in the travel industry, Google recently began rolling out more of these features in the wild. These include dynamic day-by-day trip plans, hotel add-ons, tickets, and dining stitched into a single AI conversation. Brad Brewer posted under Agentic Hospitality on LinkedIn about this, he added, "is not a far-off experiment. It's about to launch." He posted more details over here explaining the features that recently rolled out.
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.
