The search bar Google has incorporated a new ‘+’ button which, located on the far left, replaces the usual magnifying glass icon to give way to AI mode, as it allows you to attach images or files and use that content … basis for performing an advanced search.
Although at first glance the Google.com homepage looks the same as usual, if you dig into the details you can see that the tech giant has started implementing a change to the search bar for some users.
More precisely, we see that the bar anda does not have a magnifying glass icon on the far leftbut now it has a new icon in the shape of ‘+’, which replaces the previous one to bet on the experience with AI mode directly from the main page.
Therefore, this new ‘+’ button is a new menu which, When pressed, it allows selecting and attaching both an image and a fileso that the search is carried out with these documents provided as basic context.
That is, users can share a specific image stored on their computer to search for information on the items that appear, as well as upload their own PDF file to increase the search for the content discussed in said document. All directly from the Google search bar, indicating what they want to do.
Google already offers this capability in its search experience with AI Mode, an option that arrived in Spain in October this year and is based on a more powerful search experience assisted by the company’s artificial intelligence (AI), covering multiple languages, complex questions and approaches including voice and images.
Therefore, the technology company has added the “+” menu, already available in the AI Mode section, directly to the main search bar of Google.com, so that users can choose to access this advanced search experience from the start in a simpler way.
According to the specialized media ‘9to5Google’, which also had access to this new feature in the web version of Google Desktop, the ‘+’ icon It even displays in private browsing mode and without needing to be connected.
In this sense, it works in a simple way since, when you press the “+”, it offers an alternative to “Upload an image” or “Upload a file”. Once the desired option is selected and the content in question is shared, Google analyzes it to perform the requested search in the search bar.
With all this, Google has not officially shared information about this change and it is not yet available to all users generally. However, this is an option that makes AI Mode more accessible in order to encourage its use.
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