Google Revamps Search for AI Era, Debuts Coding Tools (3)

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is redesigning its iconic search box and adding new artificial intelligence coding tools, the latest steps in the company’s multibillion-dollar campaign to expand influence in the age of AI.

Google overhauled the search box to better handle the longer, more complicated queries people bring to chatbots. The firm is also planning to update the search engine with agents that can help people track topics of interest, make reservations and monitor their health, among other things. Some features will initially be limited to paying subscribers.

Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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