{"id":252735,"date":"2026-05-22T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/ask-ai-or-just-google-it-google-makes-a-big-change-to-a-little-search-box-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:20:22","slug":"ask-ai-or-just-google-it-google-makes-a-big-change-to-a-little-search-box-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/ask-ai-or-just-google-it-google-makes-a-big-change-to-a-little-search-box-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/22\/nx-s1-5829915\/google-search-box-ai\">Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/22\/nx-s1-5829915\/google-search-box-ai\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/22\/nx-s1-5829915\/google-search-box-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 15:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Google chief executive Sundar Pichai speaks during the tech titan&#8217;s annual I\/O developers conference on May 14, 2024, in Mountain View, California. Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries made by users in the United States, in one of the biggest updates to its search engine in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>                    GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images\/AFP<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        GLENN CHAPMAN\/AFP via Getty Images\/AFP<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter sent every weekday morning.<\/p>\n<p>MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. \u2013 Google is changing what it means to Google.<\/p>\n<p>The company this week announced significant changes to its search box \u2014 that austere, single-line input field on its homepage that has been the world&#8217;s most popular entry point into the web for around two-and-a-half decades.<\/p>\n<p>The new version looks similar to the old one-line text box, but it&#8217;s dynamic, expanding with longer queries. Users can also drop videos, pictures and files into it for what Google calls &#8220;multimodal&#8221; search.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, a bigger shift is under way. Google is merging artificial intelligence and traditional web search in a move that Liz Reid, who oversees search at Google, said brings &#8220;the best of web and the best of AI together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics say folding AI deeper into search risks further muddying the waters around the provenance of information gleaned from the web, and could take agency away from users. A chatbot is likely to return a summary with only a few links to further information, unlike a web search that returns many pages of links.<\/p>\n<p>But the shift is, in some ways, not surprising, given Silicon Valley&#8217;s hard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/22\/nx-s1-5829915\/google-search-box-ai\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask AI or just Google it? 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