Google is making its biggest change to the search bar in years

By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN

CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, speaks at the 2026 Google I/O technology developer conference in Mountain View, California, on 19 May, 2026.

To get ahead in the new internet age, Google wants to help you google less.

The company on Tuesday (local time) revealed a flurry of AI-powered features for its search engine, AI assistant Gemini and other services. It's part of Google's latest effort to revamp its decades-old business model to fit the era of artificial intelligence.

Among those updates is a new version of the search bar that can crawl the web on a user's behalf and a new mode in Gemini that can work autonomously over periods of time.