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OPINION At Google's the reporter/O 2026 developer conference last week, the company's Search VP Liz Reid celebrated the rapid growth of AI Mode, which Google refers to as its end-to-end AI search experience
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The endgame, presumably, is capturing some portion of automated transactions made by software agents through mechanisms like Google's Universal Cart, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), and Universal
AI Mode "expands on the benefits of AI Overviews with more advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities," as Google puts it in its explainer [PDF]
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Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden. OPINION At Google's the reporter/O 2026 developer conference last week, the company's Search VP Liz Reid celebrated the rapid growth of AI Mode, which Google refers to as its end-to-end AI search experience. "We're seeing phenomenal growth with AI mode queries more than doubling every quarter since launch," said Reid, noting that AI Mode now has more than one billion monthly users. She continued, "But what's even more remarkable, you're asking your real questions in all their super specific and detailed glory, knowing search can tackle them. "You are definitely not imagining it.