Google Search undergoes its biggest transformation in history: Repositioning Search as a one-stop portal for AI agents

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At I/O 2026, Google announced that it will reposition Search as an operating system for AI agents: Information agents, agentic booking, agentic calling, and generative UI are all being launched. (Context: ChatGPT search is now fully open to free users; will it threaten Google's hegemony?) (Background: Anthropic report: The 2028 AI supremacy battle; if the US fails to secure its computing advantage, it risks being overtaken by China.) One billion monthly active users, with query volume doubling every quarter—these are the figures Google presented at I/O 2026. Two years ago, when ChatGPT search was launched, the world cried, "Google's moat is failing." One year ago, AI Mode went live. Today, Google used these numbers to announce the rapid growth of AI Mode. But the monthly active user count was just the prelude to I/O 2026. What is truly worth noting is what Google is doing to Search itself. The logic of the Google search box has not fundamentally changed since the early 2000s: input keywords, receive a list of links. This design has persisted for a quarter of a century. At I/O 2026, Google announced that this design is officially being retired. The new intelligent Search box has three core capabilities: First, dynamic expansion, allowing users to fully describe their needs without compressing questions into three words. Second, AI question completion, which means the system proactively guesses what you want to ask next—not just auto-filling text, but understanding intent to provide complete question suggestions. Third, cross-modal input, allowing users to paste images, upload files, drop videos, or even connect directly to the Chrome tab the user is currently browsing. Also upgraded is the integration logic of AI Overviews. In the past, after AI Overview provided a summary, users had to start a new query to follow up. Now, AI Overviews can transition directly into AI Mode conversations, rolling out globally on desktop and mobile today. Simply put, it changes the "Q&A exit" of Google Search from a single query to a continuous conversation. The model driving all of this is Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google's latest Flash series model, which focuses on agents and coding scenarios and becomes the default global deployment for AI Mode starting today. A deeper layer of I/O 2026 is Google's repositioning of the essence of Search. Three new feature lines debuted simultaneously: Information agents, agentic booking with calling, and agentic coding with generative UI. Information agents allow users to set up and manage multiple AI agents within Search, residing in the background, spanning the web, news, social media, and real-time market data, reporting back proactively once content matching the requirements is found. For example: Someone looking to buy a house just needs to input criteria like square footage, location, and budget, and the agent will continuously scan the market for new listings, notifying the user immediately when a match is found. Sneakerheads wanting to track the release of a specific collaboration can similarly set conditions for an agent to monitor. In other words, Google has created a group of "task-oriented AI secretaries" that don't require users to stare at the screen; the agents work continuously for you. This feature is expected to be available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer. Agentic booking is expanding from travel to local experiences, home repairs, beauty services, and pet care, integrating real-time pricing and availability. For some categories, Google can even make calls to businesses to complete bookings, launching fully in the US this summer. The role of agentic coding is the most unique. Google wants to integrate its own Antigravity development platform into Search, allowing users to generate interactive generative UI in real-time during the query process: customized forms, simulators, health tracking dashboards, or even reusable mini apps. For example: You ask Search, "Help me build a small tool to track daily steps and weather." Search pulls real-time data and directly generates a functional mini-application. Basic features are expected to be free for everyone this summer, with mini apps coming to US AI Pro/Ultra subscribers in the following months. For challengers like OpenAI and Anthropic, what does this landscape mean? Google has chosen not to concentrate its AI capabilities into a standalone AI product, but rather to pack its entire company's AI infrastructure (Antigravity + Gemini 3.5 + DeepMind) into the Search portal that everyone already uses every day. Computing power × Users × Data, the triangular multiplication—this is a starting point that other competitors will find difficult to replicate.

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