Google's big AI Mode update adds visual search and shopping - how to try it

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• AI Mode will now display more images in the results.
• A new shopping experience also arrives in AI Mode.
• This is another attempt to sway users to use Google's AI search engine.

Google introduced its AI Mode in the spring, intended to be a spin on the classic Google Search experience that incorporates AI's conversational capabilities into the search engine. Google is now updating the experience to be more visual and even help you shop.

'Breakthrough in visual search'

On Tuesday, Google announced that AI Mode would now display a range of visual results when users input a conversational search prompt. Once an image is displayed, users can ask follow-up questions about the image or click on the link to learn more. Since the experience is multimodal, users can also start the search ...