How AI Mode is changing the way people search in the U.S.

Google's AI Mode has surpassed a billion monthly active users globally one year after launch, with queries more than doubling every quarter . AI Mode bridges traditional search and conversational AI, enabling users to search differently by asking natural language questions rather than keywords . Data shows more than one in six searches in the U.S. now involve multimodal inputs beyond text, indicating how AI Mode is expanding what users consider searchable .

Source: Google AI | 2026-05-19