Google is excited to share some fantastic updates coming to Search in 2025, powered by Gemini 2.0.
Awesome Enhancements to AI Overviews
One of the coolest updates is the upgrade to AI Overviews.
CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned:
“Our AI Overviews now reach 1 billion people, enabling them to ask entirely new types of questions—quickly becoming one of our most popular search features ever.”
With the capabilities of Gemini 2.0, AI overviews will soon tackle complex topics and multi-step questions with ease. This includes advanced math problems, multimodal queries, and coding tasks.
Pichai elaborates:
“We’re bringing the advanced reasoning capabilities of Gemini 2.0 to AI Overviews to tackle more complex topics and multi-step questions, including advanced math equations, multimodal queries, and coding.”
Google is actively testing these powerful updates and will roll out the enhanced AI Overviews in early 2025, with plans to extend availability to more countries and languages in the following year.
Unleashing the Power of Gemini 2.0
Gemini 2.0, particularly the Gemini 2.0 Flash model, is the driving force behind these revolutionary Search updates.
According to the leadership at Google DeepMind:
“2.0 Flash even outperforms 1.5 Pro on key benchmarks, at twice the speed.”
This model significantly boosts performance and adeptly handles a variety of inputs and outputs. The announcement asserts:
“In addition to supporting multimodal inputs like images, video, and audio, 2.0 Flash now supports multimodal output like natively generated images mixed with text and steerable text-to-speech (TTS) multilingual audio.”
Moreover, Gemini 2.0 Flash can leverage tools like Google Search and execute code to access user-defined functions from a variety of sources.
Innovative New Features for Search
Google is also developing exciting new features for Search, including Project Mariner, which seeks to revolutionise user interaction with agents in web browsers. The company describes it as:
Integrating Gemini 2.0 into Google Search is a decisive step toward enhancing the user experience with AI Overviews.
The success of these updates will depend on Google’s ability to implement them effectively while prioritising safety and responsibility.
As these updates are rolled out, we are confident that users will respond positively, and these enhancements will significantly improve the search experience.
