Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

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Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

What is that supposed to do for you? Maybe you want to plan a family outing for the weekend, so you ask search to build an itinerary. …

What is that supposed to do for you? Maybe you want to plan a family outing for the weekend, so you ask search to build an itinerary. In that case, Search can create a UI with event suggestions, reviews, map embeds, and calendar integration. It pulls this data from Google’s platform as well as from around the web. The early demos of search agent dashboards actually show you the code as it’s generated, but Google is most likely going to hide this for the full rollout later this summer. Showing a simplified workflow of chain of thought would avoid confusing the average user who just wants a pretty UI and doesn’t care that it was generated on the spot. You can revisit and change the dashboard by accessing your AI Mode history in the sidebar. These generated apps can be customized with follow-up prompts, and you can share them with others via a link. The other party can even customize the app to their liking. Currently, there is no way to share those modifications, but that’s something Google is exploring. It may also be possible in the future to manually modify the code of these mini-apps line by line. Swallowing the Internet whole The overarching trend here is fewer blue links and more AI-generated everything. Google says the greater efficiency of Gemini 3.5 Flash enables all these new AI experiences, and we can expect more of them in the future. …

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