Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box

The search giant is updating its famously minimalist homepage. But what looks like a tiny design change is a very big deal.
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The next version of Search won’t look like Search

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Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a ...

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

Google redesigned its search box for the first time in 25 years, merging AI Overviews and AI Mode into a new multimodal AI ...

Google's new AI Search box is here - along with agents and 5 more upgrades

Google now has information agents that work in the background and agentic coding tools that let you build apps directly in ...