- Google announced a new feature called “Ask YouTube”
- This allows you to ask long, detailed questions when searching for a video
- It uses Gemini and makes the service look a little more like a chatbot
Google I/O 2026 is now underway, and among the many announcements emerging from the California showcase, Google revealed “Ask YouTube” – a feature that adds conversational AI to the popular video streaming platform.
With Ask YouTube, rather than searching for a specific video the old-fashioned way, you can ask complex and lengthy questions, and Gemini will suggest specific videos that it believes best answer your query. Fortunately, you will also be taken directly to the relevant part of the videos in question, rather than having to scroll through them.
An example of a query given by Google was: “How do I teach my 3 year old to ride a pedal bike, he already knows how to ride a balance bike?” As you can see in the video below, the results provided written responses like a typical AI chatbot, but these were accompanied by relevant YouTube videos, so you can both read and watch to get the answers you’re looking for.
The idea of Ask YouTube is to make information more digestible and make it easier to find useful videos and their relevant parts.
Coming this summer, but only in the United States
Ask YouTube is a similar idea to “Ask Maps,” a feature that was recently rolled out to Google Maps. Although currently Ask Maps is only available in the US and India, and at launch Ask YouTube will only be accessible in the US.
So much of the world will be stuck waiting for this exciting new feature, but if you’re in the US, you should have access to Ask YouTube “this summer”, probably between June and September.
And if you’re happy doing things the current way, you can always ignore the new Ask YouTube button that’s coming soon.
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