{"id":28661,"date":"2025-05-29T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28661"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:24:09","slug":"google-ai-mode-for-search-has-arrived-proceed-with-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28661","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Mode for Search Has Arrived. Proceed With Caution."},"content":{"rendered":"
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AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches.<\/p>\n

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Last week, I asked Google to help me plan my daughter\u2019s birthday party by finding a park in Oakland, Calif., with picnic tables. The site generated a list of parks nearby, so I went to scout two of them out \u2014 only to find there were, in fact, no tables.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just there,\u201d I typed to Google. \u201cI didn\u2019t see wooden tables.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google acknowledged the mistake and produced another list, which again included one of the parks with no tables.<\/p>\n

I repeated this experiment by asking Google to find an affordable carwash nearby. Google listed a service for $25, but when I arrived, a carwash cost $65.<\/p>\n

I also asked Google to find a grocery store where I could buy an exotic pepper paste. Its list included a nearby Whole Foods, which didn\u2019t carry the item.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I wasn\u2019t doing traditional web searches on Google.com. I was testing the company\u2019s new AI Mode<\/a>, a tool that is similar to chatbots like ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Gemini, where users can type in questions to get answers. AI Mode, which is rolling out worldwide in the coming weeks, will soon appear as a tab next to your Google.com search results.<\/p>\n

The arrival of AI Mode underscores how new technology is redefining what it means to search for something online. For decades, a web search involved looking up keywords, like \u201cmost reliable car brands,\u201d to show a list of relevant websites.<\/p>\n

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AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches.Last week, I asked Google to help me plan my daughter\u2019s birthday party by finding a park in Oakland, Calif., with picnic tables. The site generated a list of parks nearby, so I went to scout two of them out \u2014 only to find there were, in fact, no tables.\u201cI was just there,\u201d I typed to Google. \u201cI didn\u2019t see wooden tables.\u201dGoogle acknowledged the mistake and produced another list, which again included one of the parks with no tables.I repeated this experiment by asking Google to find an affordable carwash nearby. Google listed a service for $25, but when I arrived, a carwash cost $65.I also asked Google to find a grocery store where I could buy an exotic pepper paste. Its list included a nearby Whole Foods, which didn\u2019t carry the item.I wasn\u2019t doing traditional web searches on Google.com. I was testing the company\u2019s new AI Mode, a tool that is similar to chatbots like ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Gemini, where users can type in questions to get answers. AI Mode, which is rolling out worldwide in the coming weeks, will soon appear as a tab next to your Google.com search results.The arrival of AI Mode underscores how new technology is redefining what it means to search for something online. For decades, a web search involved looking up keywords, like \u201cmost reliable car brands,\u201d to show a list of relevant websites.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28663,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28664,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions\/28664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}