My Start Menu no longer hesitates to “search the web” before finding my own files.

For the last two decades, Google has brought people a list of algorithmically selected links from the web for any given search query. At I/O 2025, Google made clear that the concept of Search is ...

These are two very different sides to the internet.

This year’s conference included another change to search, this one more profound but less aggressively deployed. “AI Mode,” which has similarly been in beta testing for a while, will appear as an ...

Google is testing Web Guide in Search Labs. Web Guide is an AI-powered feature that groups search results by topic in the Web tab. The system uses Gemini and a “query fan-out” method to reorganize ...

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...

Google is rolling out a new search labs experiment feature named Web Guide. Web Guide uses AI to organize the results page, grouping web links into helpful categories with added context and insights, ...

People are already turning to AI to answer questions, compare products, and make decisions in seconds. That shift exposes a fundamental problem: the web’s underlying structure was never built for ...