As OpenAI goes into “Code Red ” over competitive pressures, Google announced it has begun testing a new feature that merges its AI Overviews with AI Mode in Search. That means that users who are provided with the now common, AI-generated snapshot of key information on a topic or question above their search results can choose to go deeper by asking follow-up questions in a conversational interface.

Google calls this conversational feature AI Mode . It launched to U.S users this May , and to global users this August, allowing for back-and-forth chats with Google’s Gemini AI, in an experience similar to ChatGPT.

However, accessing the experience so far has required you to think ahead about what type of question you were preparing to search for. If it were a more traditional search

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