Three weeks ago at Google I/O, Google announced AI Mode will roll out to all U.S. searchers. That time has seemed to come over the past several hours.
AI Mode signed out. When you use Google without being signed in, or in incognito mode, and try to access AI Mode with longer queries, it probably will show up for you within the U.S.
Here is a screenshot that I was able to trigger for AI Mode while signed out of Google:
What is AI Mode. AI Mode is a new tab within Google Search that brings you into a more AI-like interface. Google said AI Mode “is particularly helpful for queries where further exploration, reasoning, or comparisons are needed.” AI Mode lets you explore a topic and get comprehensive AI-based answers without you needing to do those comparisons and analyses yourself. We saw rumors of this news and it is finally officially here, for some of you.
AI Mode uses a “query fan-out” technique that issues multiple related searches concurrently across subtopics and multiple data sources and then brings those results together to provide a response. Google said using this query fan-out method provides searchers with a “more breadth and depth of information than a traditional search on Google.”
AI Mode supports searching with text, voice, and images through its multimodal capabilities. Plus, AI Mode offers the conversational follow-up questions like you’ve seen in AI Overviews and Gemini.
Search Console. You may start to see a change in impressions, clicks and other data in your Search Console performance reports. Google will be lumping AI Mode data with web search data in those reports.
Why we care. This is a big step for the future of Google Search and the search marketing industry. For AI Mode to roll out in the U.S. without opting into it, is a big deal.
I expect it to roll out in more and more regions over the coming months.