Google adds Gemini 3.5 search box, personal results, agents

Google updated its core Search experience with an AI-powered search box running the Gemini 3.5 Flash model, new personalized results that can surface content from Gmail and Photos, and always-on information agents. The company also expanded automated booking capabilities for U.S. users and announced new generative layout and coding tools.

The company upgraded AI Mode to Gemini 3.5 Flash and introduced an “intelligent Search box” that grows as users type to accommodate longer, natural-language queries. The box can search across web results as well as text, images, files and open Chrome tabs. Google said the box provides AI-powered suggestions that go beyond standard autocomplete.

Personal results will appear inside Search if users opt to connect their Google apps. Google said the feature can surface content from Gmail and Photos immediately, with Calendar support coming later. Users choose which apps to connect. Google is expanding Personal Intelligence in AI Mode to 200 countries without a subscription. The intelligent Search box begins rolling out this week in countries and languages where AI Mode is already enabled.

Google introduced “information agents” that run continuously, scanning websites, social posts, news sites and other sources for changes or new items that match a user’s criteria. When the agents find updates, they send summarized alerts. Google gave examples such as an agent that watches apartment listings for specific requirements and an agent that notifies a fan when an athlete releases a new product. Information agents will be available to Google AI and Ultra subscribers starting this summer.

Agentic booking will expand in the U.S., with Google offering to book across a wider range of tasks. For select categories, Google said it can call a business on a user’s behalf to complete a booking or reservation.

Search will also gain agentic coding and generative user-interface features that assemble interactive components in real time. Users will be able to generate custom layouts that include visuals, tables, graphs and simulations, and to create mini apps and dashboards for ongoing tasks such as planning a move or organizing an event. Google said those dashboard and tracker features will arrive first for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S. in the coming months.

Elizabeth Reid, vice president of search at Google, wrote that “This intelligent Search box puts our most powerful AI tools right at your fingertips, making it easier to ask your questions.” She added that Search will continue to return a range of results alongside the new AI features.

Google noted that Search queries are at an all-time high. The company acknowledged critiques about AI accuracy and environmental impact. One study found AI-generated summaries were correct about 91% of the time, a rate that implies roughly one in ten responses could be incorrect; Google disputed that assessment.

The intelligent Search box rollout begins this week in supported countries and languages, information agents will be offered to paid subscribers this summer, and the Pro- and Ultra-tier dashboard tools will start appearing in the U.S. in the next few months.