AI-driven answers with AI Mode in Google Search

 AI-driven answers with AI Mode in Google Search;

AI Mode is the strongest AI search experience in Google. Ask anything and receive an AI-driven answer, with the potential to delve further with follow-up questions and insightful links to the web. AI Mode extends what AI Overviews are capable of with more sophisticated reasoning and modes of interaction. It breaks down your question into subtopics and searches all of them at once. This way, AI Mode can search the web to get even more appropriate content that aligns with your query.

AI Mode draws on Google Search's profound knowledge of web content, so answers are backed up by high quality web pages for the sake of increased factuality. AI Mode in certain situations will present a list of web links if there isn't high enough confidence in the helpfulness or quality of an AI answer. Like any early-stage AI product, AI Mode isn't perfect. When it isn't, we'd like you to provide feedback in the form of thumbs up / thumbs down so we can improve it even further.

We'll keep refining AI Mode, making its features larger in scope, enhancing its user interface and coming up with new methods of assisting users to access and interact with the web.

To receive early access to innovative and experimental features in AI Mode, sign up for the "AI Mode" experiment in Search Labs.

Tip: AI-generated responses can contain errors. Discover how information assists Google in creating generative AI in Search.

Availability of AI Mode

•        For the best experience, enable Search history by turning on Web & App Activity. Without this setting enabled, you can still access AI Mode but can't pick up where you left off with previous searches.

•        For Workspace users with Search and Assistant turned off, Search history is unavailable and can only be enabled by your Workspace administrator via the Admin console.

• For managed children accounts, settings can be controlled through the Family Link app.

• AI Mode is English-only in the below countries and regions:

Supported countries & territories

How to access AI Mode

You can access AI Mode in three ways:

• Visit google.com/aimode.

• Visit www.google.com, type a question into the Search box, and click AI Mode.

• On the Google app, tap AI Mode   on the home screen.

How to use AI Mode

You can do the following in AI Mode:

•Enter any question in text, voice or images and receive AI-driven answers.

•Ask additional questions on a subject.

•Research subjects further using information from sources across the web.

•Resume where you left off using AI Mode history  .

Ask a question using text

1.Type your question in the Ask anything bar at the bottom of the screen.

2.To ask a new question or a follow-up question, enter in the Ask anything bar toward the bottom of the screen.

Use voice to ask a question

1.Tap Microphone   in the Ask anything bar toward the bottom of the screen.

2.Speak your question.

3.To ask a new question or a follow-up question, tap Microphone   in the Ask anything bar toward the bottom of the screen.

Use images to ask a question

Important: This feature is only in the Google app .

1. In the Search box, tap Lens .

2. Upload a photo or take a picture.

3. To ask a follow-up or new question, type into the Ask anything bar at the bottom of the screen.

Tip: To go between search results and AI Mode, tap All at the top of the screen.

How AI Mode works

With AI Mode, you can pose any question and receive a thorough AI-driven answer with links to learn more. You can pose questions that may have once required several searches – such as researching a new idea or weighing options – and you can pose follow-up questions. AI mode employs a "query fan-out" strategy, breaking up your question into subtopics and searching each one at the same time across multiple sources of information. It then brings those results together to provide an easy-to-understand response. Learn more about AI Mode and AI Overviews in Search.

As with any early-stage AI product, AI Mode doesn’t always get it right. For example, in some cases AI Mode may misinterpret web content or miss context, as can happen with any automated system in Search.

How to double-check responses:

• Always verify key information in multiple locations. Follow the links for AI sources and use other Google Search results as well. Discover more about how to assess information you discover with Google.

• Ask several forms of your query to obtain the most helpful answers. Ask for alternative opinions or ask for additional information.

• Report issues to Google if something is not quite right. Your feedback assist us in making AI Mode better for everyone.

"AI Mode" in Search Labs

Note: AI Mode in Search Labs is offered to users 18 and older in English.

You may participate in the "AI Mode" experiment in Search Labs, our testing ground for innovation, to have early access to experimental advanced features in AI Mode. Read more about where the "AI Mode" experiment is now live.

Experiment with advanced capabilities in AI Mode

With Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Mode, you may experiment with advanced capabilities to seek assistance with your most challenging questions. Gemini 2.5 Pro is a master at advanced reasoning, math, and coding queries, assisting you with your complicated learning requirements with links to find out more. Google AI Pro and AI Ultra members can try the 2.5 Pro model in Deep Search or choose the 2.5 Pro model from the drop-down menu  in the AI Mode tab. The default model in AI Mode will still be useful for speedy, general-purpose help on most queries.

You can get these extra abilities in AI Mode via Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra.

Google AI Ultra members can also try new agentic abilities to assist in getting things done in the "Agentic capabilities in AI Mode" test. For instance:

•        “Find me a dinner reservation for [Insert desired date, time, location, preferences, requirements, group size, etc.]."

How AI Mode personalizes responses for you

For a more personalized AI Mode experience, opt into the AI Mode experiment in Search Labs. AI Mode personalization is only available if you're 18 or older, in the US, and have Web and App Activity and Search personalization turned on.

To manage Search personalization:

1.In your Google Account, click on Search personalization setting.

2.Turn Personalize Search on   or off  .

Tip: This preference also manages personalization for other Search features such as Discover, Movie recommendations, and Auto-complete suggestions.

This feature in AI Mode calls on past searching as well as Search and Maps usage to assist in bringing you recommendations that suit your preferences and tastes. AI Mode may not always be personalization perfect. If AI Mode makes a mistake, you're always able to reply with a follow-up to fix or to provide additional information about your interests and preferences in order to assist in teaching AI Mode what is important to you.

Delete AI Mode history stored in your account

1.On your computer, navigate to AI Mode.

2.On the left, click AI Mode history   to see previous searches stored in your account.

3.Choose the AI Mode search that you wish to delete:

•Click     Delete  .

4.To remove all your AI Mode history, click   at the top of AI Mode history     Delete all.

5. Alternatively, you can visit your Search History page and click  to remove the AI Mode activity stored in your account.

What gets erased when you remove AI Mode history

•Deleting searches from AI Mode history might take a while longer to be visible in My Activity. They will be automatically deleted in under 24 hours. You can delete these searches manually from My Activity.

•When you start searching with an AI Overview and opt to "Dive deeper in AI Mode," you may have two entries in your Search history for that session. Your initial query is the first entry, and the second entry captures the switching into AI Mode for subsequent questions. If you remove this search from AI Mode history, it will remain visible in your Search history. To totally remove this particular search, you will also need to remove it from your Search history.

How data assists Google build generative AI in Search

To build and enhance generative AI experiences in Search and the underlying machine learning technology, Google draws on people's engagement with Search and these AI experiences. This may involve interaction such as what individuals search for and what they tell Google in terms of feedback. Based on user feedback and human ratings, we assess and refine the quality of our results and offerings in a responsible manner.

When trained reviewers struggle to enhance the quality of Search's machine learning models, we take various precautions to safeguard users' privacy:

•Reviewers' view and annotate data are isolated from users' accounts.

•Computerized tools assist in detecting and eliminating wide-ranging identifying information and sensitive personal information.

Provide feedback

Your feedback assists us in refining AI Mode. Here's how to give it:

•Grade the response:

•Below every AI Mode answer, thumbs up   and thumbs down   icons are located.

•Click   if you considered the AI Mode answer to be useful. If you'd like to explain, click Share more feedback and select the category that most accurately describes why you're giving feedback. You can provide additional detail in the text field (Recommended).

• Click if you didn't find the AI Mode response helpful, not accurate, or otherwise undesirable. To let us know more, select the category that best explains your issue. You may provide more information in the text field (recommended).

• Submit:

• Click Submit to send feedback. The feedback you provide contains your latest search query and the results from your search.

Related resources

• Learn about Generative AI

•Discover information quicker & simpler with AI Overviews in Google Search

•AI Overviews and more" in Search Labs