
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google Search has added a brand new plus (+) icon within the search bar.
- The button permits you to add paperwork and pictures, doing which is able to open AI Mode.
- The UI doesn’t clearly clarify what the button is meant to do.
Google actually needs individuals to strive its AI Mode, which turns looking for data on the internet right into a quasi-conversation with a multimodal chatbot. Simply final week, we noticed that Chrome is on the point of incorporate AI Mode proper into the browser, and now, a brand new icon that surfaces some AI Mode performance is exhibiting up on the Google homepage.
The search bar at google.com has included an AI Mode icon on the appropriate hand facet for a while. Right this moment, we’re seeing a further plus icon on the left facet of the bar. Clicking the plus brings up choices to add a picture or doc, both of which is able to provoke an AI Mode interplay the place you’ll be able to ask questions on your add.
What precisely this new button does is poorly telegraphed by the UI; there’s no AI Mode branding linked the button till after you’ve uploaded your file. The tooltip that seems whenever you mouse over the icon simply says “Add recordsdata or photos.”

Given Search’s Lens integration equally asks you to “Drag a picture right here or add a file” whenever you click on its search bar icon, the extra add choices is likely to be a bit complicated to much less engaged customers.
Nonetheless, in comparison with clicking the present AI Mode icon after which importing your file from there, the plus icon does prevent a click on, so there’s some utility for those who repeatedly use AI Mode to work together with footage or different paperwork.
I’m seeing the brand new plus icon throughout three separate Google accounts, so it appears to be rolled out broadly. You possibly can strive it now at google.com.
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