Google search gets an AI makeover
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
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On this week’s Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review, we take a look at how college graduates do not wanna hear about AI. Plus, what we all learned from the Musk v. Open AI case.
But first, AI was unsurprisingly front and center at Google’s annual I/O developer conference. Among a suite of new AI products, Google said it updated its iconic search bar. Now, when searching in AI mode, the bar will expand as you ask a question. It will also provide suggestions about what you might wanna ask. Google says this is the biggest change to its search box since it debuted over 25 years ago. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, a columnist at The Information, about how this could change how people experience the internet.
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| 0:38.0 | I'm Stephanie Hughes. |
| 0:48.0 | It's Friday, time for Marketplace Techbytes. |
| 0:51.6 | This week, college graduates do not want to hear about AI, plus what we all |
| 0:57.2 | learned from the Musk v. OpenAI case. But first, AI was front and center at I.O. this week. That's |
| 1:05.1 | Google's annual developer conference. The company announced a new AI video generator, new smart glasses called intelligent eyewear, |
| 1:13.3 | not Google Glass. It also said that more than 900 million people now use its AI assistant, |
| 1:19.9 | Gemini. And the company is making updates to its iconic search bar. Now when searching in |
| 1:26.4 | AI mode, the bar will expand as you ask a question. |
| 1:30.2 | It'll also provide suggestions about what you might want to ask. Google says this is the biggest |
| 1:35.4 | change to its search box since it debuted over 25 years ago. I talked with Anita Ramoswami, |
| 1:41.3 | a columnist at the information, about how this could change how people |
| 1:44.6 | experience the internet. I think it's absolutely massive. I mean, just to put some numbers and put |
| 1:50.4 | this in perspective for you, you know, we said 900 million, that's how many, or monthly users, |
| 1:55.0 | Gemini has. Google search itself has about 3 billion. So there's still a lot of people who are |
| 2:00.4 | using Google and going to Google |
| 2:02.1 | search that are not actively seeking out the Gemini AI product. And I think this really changes |
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