Google AI Mode coming to Chrome browser

Google AI Mode is coming to the Chrome browser with the Chrome address bar allowing you to ask long questions and search in AI Mode. Plus, while you are browsing a webpage, you can ask questions about that page with the assistance of AI Mode, Google announced.

Chrome search box. Google added AI Mode to the Chrome address bar, the omnibox. This allows you to type question-like formatted questions directly in the Chrome address bar and then click AI Mode to have the question submitted to AI Mode.

Here is how it looks:

Robby Stein from Google wrote, “This means you can use AI Mode to ask complex, multi-part questions right from the same place you already search and browse the web from Chrome. And you can quickly ask follow-up questions and explore more content from across the web.”

AI Mode on webpages. Searchers who use Chrome will soon be able to ask questions about the entire web page that you are on, directly from the omnibox.

Chrome can suggest relevant questions based on the context of the page and then you can get an AI Overview from Google Search right on the page. You can then do ask follow-up questions in AI Mode.

Contextual suggestions are available in the U.S. in English and will be rolling out to more countries and languages in the weeks ahead.

Here is how that looks:

What is AI Mode. AI Mode is a new tab within Google Search that brings you into a more AI-like interface. Google said AI Mode “is particularly helpful for queries where further exploration, reasoning, or comparisons are needed.” AI Mode lets you explore a topic and get comprehensive AI-based answers without you needing to do those comparisons and analyses yourself. We saw rumors of this news and it is finally officially here, for some of you.

AI Mode uses a “query fan-out” technique that issues multiple related searches concurrently across subtopics and multiple data sources and then brings those results together to provide a response. Google said using this query fan-out method provides searchers with a “more breadth and depth of information than a traditional search on Google.”

AI Mode supports searching with text, voice, and images through its multimodal capabilities. Plus, AI Mode offers the conversational follow-up questions like you’ve seen in AI Overviews and Gemini.

Tracking AI Mode. You won’t be able to easily track AI Mode queries and data in Search Console, despite that data being logged in Search Console. Google lumps it all together with normal search, despite it being a separate tab within Google.com.

Now that AI Mode is outside of Search Labs in India, you will see this data in Search Console, but it will just make it all super messy.

Why we care. AI Mode continues to expand to more and more locations within Google. Google continues to look for ways to get AI Mode into more searchers hands. Will it become the default one day? Maybe. We know Google said AI Mode is the future of Google Search, Liz Reid, the head of Google Search announced that in May 2025.

As a reminder, recently Google made a shortcut to AI Mode, google.com/ai now leads you directly to Google’s AI Mode.