First time since 2001https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign in years. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, "getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries," reports the New York Times. "In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google's main search page.">You only need to go to google.com and AI gets instantly activated even before you are asking anything from it.The company will also offer digital assistants, known as agents, to automate searches so that someone who may be apartment hunting can be notified of a new listing without opening a real estate site like Zillow. The search features will be powered by a new artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. Google said the model had improved on creating software code and performing autonomous tasks, worked faster and was less expensive to run than comparable models.>Google is also bringing one of A.I.'s biggest breakthroughs -- software coding -- to search. It means you can ask relatively simple coding related problems from AI directly from search box and it gives you functional code in the coding language you asked (C, Python).Google said it was introducing an alternative to the agents powered by Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Called Gemini Spark, the service is embedded in Gmail, Docs and other Google products, where it can turn meeting notes spread across emails and chats into a single document. It can also read and draft emails."The open web is on its way out," says Richard Kramer, a financial analyst with Arete Research. "With A.I., Google is reducing everyone to raw data providers."
