By now most everyone has heard of Chat GPT, Bard and the acronym LaMDA over the past few months, and things are about to change significantly.

For the sake of this article, we’ll stay focused on what we know today about the future of search, and provide some resources and links for additional discovery, for those who are curious minded.

Here’s what we know

Google’s new Search Generative Experience, or SGE, incorporates AI-generated answers into its results. In this sample provided by Google, the AI offers advice on buying a bluetooth speaker. (Google)


Here’s how it works: You’ll still type your queries into a basic Google search box. But now on the results page, a colorful window pops up that says “generating” for a moment and then spits out an AI answer. Links for the sources of that information line up alongside it. Tap a button at the bottom, and you can keep asking follow-ups.

Sundar Pichai – CEO of Google and Alphabet
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Resources:

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/10/google-search-ai-io-2023/

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-i-o-search-algorithm-ranking-update-35378.html

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How many times does Google update its search algorithms?

Google search is changing all the time. In 2020, Google made 4,500 changes to search. This number includes changes to its ranking system, user interface and more. Plus, Google ran more than 600,000 experiments. That means Google search is changing, on average, 12 times per day.