Google announces sweeping AI overhaul of its search engine

Google unveiled a major AI overhaul of Search at I/O 2026, adding smarter query understanding, follow-up context, background info agents, and coding agents for longer tasks.

The company also introduced Gemini Omni for multimodal creation and editing, plus Gemini 3.5 Flash and a preview of Gemini 3.5 Pro.

Google is positioning Gemini as the core across its products as it races rivals like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

The changes could reshape how people search for information and how traffic flows to websites as AI agents become more central.