Google adds AI search bar, Gemini agents Universal Cart
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- Google expands its search bar to dynamically grow with longer queries and offers AI‑powered suggestions that go beyond autocomplete.
- Google introduces AI Overviews that generate a custom page with AI‑generated summaries, interactive visuals, and personalized UI directly in search results.
- Google adds “information agents” that users can create from the search bar to monitor topics like sneaker drops or apartment listings.
- Gemini (Google’s AI) now delivers a Daily Brief summarizing a user’s day from Gmail, Calendar, and other apps, and lets users build custom agents with Gemini Spark and Personal Intelligence.
- Google launches a Universal Cart that aggregates items across Search, Gemini, Gmail, and YouTube, enabling checkout through Google Pay.
Why it matters: Google users get a single AI hub that merges search, shopping and personal alerts, paving the way for higher ad and commerce revenue as the platform captures more of users’ online activity.
