Google Announces Search Updates Powered By Gemini 2.0 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has announced a bid of updates to Search for 2025, powered by Gemini 2.0, the company’s latest AI model.

Updates To AI Overviews

One of the astir notable updates is the enhancement of AI Overviews.

CEO Sundar Pichai notes:

“Our AI Overviews present scope 1 cardinal people, enabling them to inquire wholly caller types of questions — rapidly becoming 1 of our astir fashionable Search features ever.”

With Gemini 2.0, AI overviews volition soon grip analyzable topics and multi-step questions, including precocious math, multimodal queries, and coding.

Pichai explained:

“We’re bringing the precocious reasoning capabilities of Gemini 2.0 to AI Overviews to tackle much analyzable topics and multi-step questions, including precocious mathematics equations, multimodal queries and coding.”

Google is investigating these updates and plans to rotation retired the improved AI Overviews successful aboriginal 2025, with plans to grow to much countries and languages wrong the adjacent year.

Gemini 2.0

Gemini 2.0, chiefly the Gemini 2.0 Flash model, is cardinal to the caller Search updates.

As described by Google DeepMind’s leadership:

“2.0 Flash adjacent outperforms 1.5 Pro connected cardinal benchmarks, astatine doubly the speed.”

This exemplary improves show and tin grip antithetic types of inputs and outputs.

The announcement states:

“In summation to supporting multimodal inputs similar images, video and audio, 2.0 Flash present supports multimodal output similar natively generated images mixed with substance and steerable text-to-speech (TTS) multilingual audio.”

Additionally, Gemini 2.0 Flash tin usage tools similar Google Search and tally codification to entree user-defined functions from different sources.

New Possibilities For Search

Google is processing caller features for Search, including Project Mariner, which aims to amended idiosyncratic enactment with agents successful web browsers.

The institution describes it as:

“… an aboriginal probe prototype built with Gemini 2.0 that explores the aboriginal of human-agent interaction, starting with your browser.”

Looking Ahead

Integrating Gemini 2.0 into Google Search could beryllium a cardinal measurement successful improving users’ acquisition with AI overviews.

The occurrence of these updates volition beryllium connected however good Google implements them portion maintaining information and responsibility.

As the updates rotation out, we volition spot however users respond and whether these changes heighten the hunt experience.

SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer astatine Search Engine Journal

Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s grade successful communications, ...