Google Search's biggest update in 25 years: what's changing?

Google announced a major Search overhaul with the biggest search bar upgrade in 25 years. Gemini 3.5 Flash becomes the new standard model in AI Mode. The search bar dynamically adapts to the user’s query and replaces standard autocomplete with AI-driven suggestions that help formulate questions. Users can provide input as text, images, files, videos, or open Chrome tabs. Information agents run in the background 24/7, monitoring blogs, news sites, social media, and real-time financial and sports data, then sending updates when relevant items appear. Information agents launch in summer for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and booking features expand to allow Google to call companies on the user’s behalf when requested.

"Google announced a major overhaul of its search engine. According to the company, the search bar is receiving its biggest upgrade in 25 years. Gemini 3.5 Flash will become the new standard model in AI Mode. Google is also introducing information agents that monitor in the background 24/7, along with a customized user interface. The revamped search bar dynamically adapts to the user's query."

"Instead of standard autocomplete, the bar provides AI-driven suggestions that help formulate a question. Input can include text, images, files, videos, or open Chrome tabs. The rollout has begun immediately in all countries and languages where AI Mode is available. With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google is also taking the next step, focusing on agentic workloads and coding tasks."

""It's our strongest agentic and coding model yet, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro on challenging coding and agentic benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo) and MCP Atlas (83.6%), and leading in multimodal understanding (84.2% on CharXiv Reasoning). When looking at output tokens per second, it is 4 times faster than other frontier models," according to Google."

"Another new feature is the introduction of information agents in Search. These agents continuously monitor blogs, news sites, social media posts, and real-time financial and sports data, and send updates when something relevant appears. Think of monitoring a rental property that meets specific requirements or flagging a new sneaker release. Information agents will launch this summer, initially for Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers."

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