Products & AppsGoogle just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years , here’s why it matters more than you think.Google is collapsing its search interface into a unified AI-native input layer that accepts multimodal queries (text, images, PDFs, video, browser tabs) rather than keywords alone. By merging AI Overviews and AI Mode into a single flow, the company is signaling a fundamental shift in how search discovery works: away from ranked link lists toward conversational, context-aware retrieval. This move pressures competitors to follow suit and raises questions about how traditional SEO and link-based ranking survive when the search box itself becomes an LLM interaction point.VentureBeat - AI·May 1976
