# Google Search Powered Entirely by Gemini 3.5 Flash with AI Summaries

> Google has quietly rebuilt the most-used product on the internet. Its search bar is now driven entirely by Gemini 3.5 Flash, which generates a custom written answer for each query instead of returning the familiar list of blue links. The same model becomes the default across the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search worldwide. The shift goes beyond summaries. Google is layering in agentic follow-up questions, richer image and video results, and background agents that can carry out multi-step research while you move on to something else. In effect, Search is becoming less a directory and more an assistant that reads the web for you. The stakes here are enormous. Publishers who depend on search traffic have spent two years bracing for exactly this, and a fully generative default could reshape how attention and revenue flow across the open web. It also raises the pressure on rivals, since Google is betting its core franchise on the model being fast and cheap enough to serve billions of queries.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Google Blog · Published Monday, August 3, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Google has quietly rebuilt the most-used product on the internet. Its search bar is now driven entirely by Gemini 3.5 Flash, which generates a custom written answer for each query instead of returning the familiar list of blue links. The same model becomes the default across the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search worldwide. The shift goes beyond summaries. Google is layering in agentic follow-up questions, richer image and video results, and background agents that can carry out multi-step research while you move on to something else. In effect, Search is becoming less a directory and more an assistant that reads the web for you. The stakes here are enormous. Publishers who depend on search traffic have spent two years bracing for exactly this, and a fully generative default could reshape how attention and revenue flow across the open web. It also raises the pressure on rivals, since Google is betting its core franchise on the model being fast and cheap enough to serve billions of queries.

## Source

[Read the full story at Google Blog](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/)

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