Search Engine Land: “Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode will be the “default” search experience for Google Search “soon.” We know Google said AI Mode is the future of Google Search, Liz Reid, the head of Google Search announced that in May 2025. And now that may be happening soon.

• Google AI Mode shortcut. This comes in response to Google’s announcement that google.com/ai now leads you directly to Google’s AI Mode. You no longer have to go to Google.com and click on the AI Mode tab.
• Why we care. Google has been rapidly expanding access to AI Mode over the past few months. Google rolled out AI Mode in 180 countries and territories after recently expanding AI Mode in the UK, India and of course, the US.
• 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…”
• Reiterating my suggestion over many years – please stop using Google. It has not been a search engine for years.