This week the lead product manager at Google, Logan Kilpatrick, announced that AI Mode will become the default option for the Google search engine "soon." following the release of google.com/ai, a direct URL to AI Mode.
In June of this year 'AI Mode' was introduced to Google search engines to compete with Microsoft's Copilot and xAI's Grok. It is a feature powered by Gemini 2.5 that allows users to find deeper answers to web browsing inquiries.
The speculation of AI Mode becoming the new norm for Google users has been met with praise from artificial intelligence optimists, as well as criticism from those who have found search engines becoming decreasingly user-friendly in recent years.
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https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mode-default-40067.html