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genai/news//The New York Times
Google is overhauling its search box for the first time since 2001.
Google is redesigning its search box for the first time since 2001, making it larger and interactive.
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The revamped search box will now allow users to upload photos and videos as part of queries.
Users can now ask follow-up questions through a chatbot directly on Google's main search page.
Google will introduce digital assistants, or agents, that automate searches and send notifications for specific tasks.
For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.”
But over the past three years, artificial intelligence allowed people to type in longer, more complex questions like “Who are the top 24 teams in the World Cup and what chance does the United States have of advancing?”
On Tuesday, Google said the A.I. shift had inspired it to overhaul the dimensions of its search bar for the first time since 2001. The box is getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries.
In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google’s main search page. The company will also offer digital assistants, known as agents, to automate searches so that someone who may be apartment hunting can be notified of a new listing without opening a real estate site like Zillow.