- Google Live’s new search feature allows users to keep vocal conversations in real time with a version powered by AI of research
- The AI propelled by Gemini tries to simulate a friendly and competent human.
- Google is eager to have all the roads leading to Gemini, and Search Live could help people try the IA companion without realizing it
Google’s quest to incorporate its Gemini into everything has a new point of sale linked to its most central product. The new Google Search Live essentially offers Google Search AI mode a voice powered by the Gemini.
It is currently available for users in the United States via the Google app on iOS and Android, and it invites you to literally speak to your search bar. You speak, and he comes back; Unlike assistants with enthusiasm of yesteryear, he does not stop listening after a single question. It is a complete dialogue partner, unlike non -verbal IA mode.
It also works in the background, which means that I could leave the application during the cat to do something else on my phone, and the audio did not take a break or a problem. It continued, as if I were on the phone with someone.
Google refers to this system as “fan-out-out”, which means that instead of simply answering your question, it also discreetly considers related requests, attracting more diverse sources and perspectives. You also feel it. The answers do not feel in a single form of response, even on relatively simple requests like that of linen dresses in Google’s demo.
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To test live research, I operated the “live” icon and asked for speculative fictional books that I should read this summer. The great voice offered some classic options and some more recent options. I then opened Pandora’s box by asking him for his own favorites. Surprisingly, there were a few. I then decided to push him a little and to say that it was bad about the best fantastic books and I listed some of mine. Suddenly, I found myself in a debate not only on the best examples of the genre, but also on how to define it.
We have gone from there philosophical and historical opinions on Elvish empathy and if AI must be compared to mythical geniuses or brownies that do household work in exchange for cream. Without the smooth and synthetic voice and its relentless good humor, I might have thought that I really had an inactive argument with an knowledge of nothing important.
It is obviously very different from classic Google research and its wall of links. If you look at the screen, you always see the links, but the accent is on conversation. Google is not unique with a vocal version of its AI, Cargpt and others offer similar features. Google Search Live takes place as smoother, and I did not have to rephrase my questions or repeat myself once in 10 minutes. Google’s real research systems could help keep things to the ground. It’s like talking to someone who always has a pile of quotes in their rear pocket.
I do not think that live research is what people will use to replace their usual online research methods, but here is a real accessibility advantage. For people who cannot type or see comfortably, vocal tools like this open new doors. The same goes for children who ask questions of homework, or for someone to prepare a dinner that has a random question but does not want to stop to wipe the flour on their screen.
There is a compromise, of course, with regard to the way people travel the web. If this type of conversational AI becomes the dominant interface for research on Google, what happens to web traffic? Publishers already have the impression of screaming in a vacuum when their content is skimmed by AI and hiring lawyers to fight it. What will AI seek if its sources shrink or disappear? It is a complicated question, worthy of debate. I will have to see how Search Live exposes the arguments.
