{"id":45141,"date":"2025-07-29T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45141\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:19:10","slug":"google-microsoft-unveil-new-ai-search-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45141\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Microsoft unveil new AI search tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Google AI Mode and Microsoft 365 Copilot Search now available<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\".\/media_10a01a3cb5c59cf872d854695d51e47c298a12cca.png?width=750&amp;format=png&amp;optimize=medium\" width=\"777\" height=\"443\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image:<\/p>\n<p>Google, Microsoft unveil new AI search tools<\/p>\n<p>Google has announced a new AI mode for its search engine in the UK that generates results using the Gemini LLM, rather than the familiar list of search results.<\/p>\n<p>This will enable the use of more conversational natural language search prompts rather than the keyword-heavy searches typically used with a traditional search engine.<\/p>\n<p>AI mode, already available in India and the US, has been launched in the UK this week. It allows users to search with text or voice, or with photos taken using a phone camera, for example. AI Mode is available as a tab on the search results page and as apps for Android and iOS.<\/p>\n<p>The feature was announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/around-the-globe\/google-europe\/united-kingdom\/ai-mode-search-uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on 28th July, but it would appear coverage is not available in the UK at time of writing. In trying to test the feature using a Windows laptop, Computing was greeted by a message: \u201cAI Mode is not currently available on your device or account\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s announcement comes as searching via LLMs is becoming more popular, both via dedicated search engines such as Perplexity, which list sources, and also using chatbots which may not.<\/p>\n<p>Google is not replacing its traditional search with AI Mode, at least not yet, but it is clearly mindful of this trend.<\/p>\n<p>However the move to AI-generated search results and summaries is already seeing a reduction of traffic to sites including retailers and media websites.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the Pew Research Centre found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computing.co.uk\/news\/2025\/google-ai-overviews-make-users-almost-half-as-likely-to-click-on-links\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">users are only half as likely to click on a link<\/a> when presented with an AI generated overview, and that 26% of pages that included a summary were closed immediately, compared to 16% that did not include a summary.<\/p>\n<p>        Microsoft 365 Copilot Search<\/p>\n<p>Google was not the only tech giant to release a new AI search feature, with Microsoft last week unveiling Microsoft 365 Copilot Search. Unlike the consumer-facing Google AI Mode, Microsoft\u2019s feature, integrated into the Copilot app, is intended for organisational use, designed to unearth information hidden in enterprise applications via a conversational interface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it&#8217;s integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, users can find the results they need with search, then seamlessly transition to chat for deeper exploration or follow-up task completion,\u201d Microsoft says in a <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/copilot\/microsoft-365\/microsoft-365-copilot-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copilot search works across Microsoft\u2019s applications and also third-party solutions using connectors. Microsoft claims hundreds of such connectors are already available.<\/p>\n<p>Copilot Search is available to users with an eligible Microsoft 365 Copilot licence at no additional cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google AI Mode and Microsoft 365 Copilot Search now available Image: Google, Microsoft unveil new AI search tools&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[181,5311,191,34691,1281,6826,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-45141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-cloud-computing","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-copilot","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-search","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}