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Google Weather is due for a big upgrade on Android that brings a Material You redesign and Nowcast. Until it drops Pixel Tablet and Fold exclusivity, Google is also updating other parts of the experience and crowdsourcing weather conditions.

Google Search is a powerful tool if you know how to use it, and one of the best tricks for getting good answers from real people is appending “Reddit” to your query. Amid the Reddit blackout, though, Google executives are seeing reason to double down on surfacing “comprehensive answers” in Search through user-generated content and generative AI.

While SGE was the big Search development out of I/O 2023, Google also announced “Perspectives,” and the filter is now rolling out.

Many nefarious parties try to manipulate Search to drive more traffic to spam, low-quality, and deceptive websites, and Google is now offering a better way to directly report them.

Along with Maps Live View, Lens is Google’s most promising AR service, and it now has the ability to recognize skin conditions. Today, the company is also announcing other new generative AI features across Search and Shopping.

In using the future of Google for the past few days, I’ve had some takeaways about the AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE). It’s early days for SGE, but I think the fundamentals are set in stone: Most people for most queries will find generative Search useful.

For some users, Google has completely overhauled Search with AI, pushing what it calls the “Search Generative Experience.” While the experience is limited, some users have the option to turn it on now. Here’s how to turn on Search Generative Experience – SGE – and Google with AI.

Announced at I/O 2023, Google is now rolling out the AI/LLM-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to users that signed up for the Search Labs program.

Google Marketing Live is essentially I/O for advertisers, and the 2023 edition sees a number of generative AI features coming to ads, as well as how they’ll look in SGE.

Following the announcement of Search Labs to test the upcoming Search Generative Experience (SGE), Google One subscribers are getting “priority access,” though it’s won’t be immediate.

Searching for results that directly apply to you in Google Search is a familiar gamble. Now, with the aid of generative AI, Google is starting to push more personal results with a new “Perspectives” filter.

During Google I/O 2023, we’re finally getting our first look at how the tech giant plans to bring AI to Google Search.

AI coming to Google Search is more than a given at this point, and a new report details how the search engine is set for what sounds like a massive overhaul to boost its relevance and match how people are now finding information.

You may be aware of the growing list of 3D objects and animals that you can view in Google Search using AR. Well, that has now expanded as the full IKEA catalogue can be viewed in 3D when searching Google.

Generative AI coming to Google Search is a given at this point, and a new report today details that it’s happening in two stages, with project “Magi” arriving imminently.

Back in December, Google introduced topic filters to Search results as part of a carousel redesign on mobile, and it’s now coming to desktops.

Ahead of International Fact-Checking Day (April 2), Google Search is launching a number of information literacy features, including Perspectives.

The Google app on Android is overdue for a Material You redesign, but until then, it now has a comically large Search bar.

Microsoft bet big on AI with the “new Bing,” and it seems the gamble succeeded, with Bing gaining new users as Google sees a slight decline.

The last time Google added favicons to desktop Search in early 2020 there was an uproar, but the company is now rolling out a new design.