@greenpepper22@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social I also thought it was the same but it isn't, AI mode is chatbot but the search is agentic now
We’re bringing the power of Google Antigravity and the agentic coding capabilities of Gemini 3.5 Flash right into Search. Search can build the ideal response, in the right format for your question — completely on the fly. So you can get custom generative UI, including visual tools and simulations, tailored precisely to your needs.https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/#agentic-coding
It looks like they made it this way so it wasn't that shocking for regular Google users since they will see it like there was no change at all