# Google replaces search box with AI agents in biggest redesign in 25 years

> Google is rebuilding Search around AI in what it calls its biggest redesign in 25 years, replacing the familiar keyword box with a system that accepts text, images, files, video and even your open Chrome tabs. The overhaul adds always-on information agents that monitor the web around the clock and alert you to changes in finance, shopping or sports, plus a generative interface that builds custom widgets and small apps on the fly from plain language. The scale is the story. Google says its AI Mode already has more than a billion monthly users with queries doubling every quarter, so a change this fundamental to the front door of the web touches nearly everyone online. It marks the clearest sign yet that the ten blue links era is ending, giving way to answers, agents and interfaces assembled in the moment. The risks are equally large. Rewiring how a billion people find information reshapes the traffic that publishers, retailers and creators depend on, and hands even more of that flow to a single company. Convenient for users, it further concentrates the web's most valuable chokepoint.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: The Next Web · Published Monday, September 14, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Google is rebuilding Search around AI in what it calls its biggest redesign in 25 years, replacing the familiar keyword box with a system that accepts text, images, files, video and even your open Chrome tabs. The overhaul adds always-on information agents that monitor the web around the clock and alert you to changes in finance, shopping or sports, plus a generative interface that builds custom widgets and small apps on the fly from plain language. The scale is the story. Google says its AI Mode already has more than a billion monthly users with queries doubling every quarter, so a change this fundamental to the front door of the web touches nearly everyone online. It marks the clearest sign yet that the ten blue links era is ending, giving way to answers, agents and interfaces assembled in the moment. The risks are equally large. Rewiring how a billion people find information reshapes the traffic that publishers, retailers and creators depend on, and hands even more of that flow to a single company. Convenient for users, it further concentrates the web's most valuable chokepoint.

## Source

[Read the full story at The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/google-search-ai-overhaul-information-agents-io-2026)

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