Google extends AI mode search to include Japanese
Tokyo – Google LLC expanded the language capabilities of its AI mode search service to incorporate Japanese, allowing users to access new features on Tuesday.
This free, AI-driven search feature has encouraged users to seamlessly obtain answers to complex inquiries in Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese and English.
Using Google's proprietary Gemini 2.5 AI to meticulously analyze online information, users can enter queries directly into the search bar in a conversational format.
For example, enter “What equipment is essential to brewing coffee based on different methods, easy to use methods, and how it affects flavors.”
The results page also shows a prominent link to the source that notified the AI response.
“This expansion allows a wider audience to take advantage of AI modes, digging deeper into the web through the links provided.
In May, Google debuted AI mode in the US, and following the introduction of AI overviews, it streamlined its search process by providing AI-generated summaries of important information. This strategic move is widely seen as a response to a decline in engagement with traditional Google search, largely due to the rise of CHATGPT and similar conversational AI platforms.
Google, which holds approximately 90% of its stake in the online search market, earns nearly 60% of its revenue from search-related ads from parent company Alphabet Inc. Nevertheless, reports suggest that the company's market share could plummet to below 50% within the next five years.
A July report from the Pew Research Center revealed that many Google search users were evaluating AI-generated summaries. This reduced the incidence of users clicking the displayed link from 15% to 8%.
The growth of AI search capabilities coincides with a 50% decline in traffic to US news website Business Insider over the past three years.
Implementing AI modes is expected to further exacerbate these trends in the near future.
In May, News/Media Alliance, a nonprofit consortium representing more than 2,200 US publishers, expressed concern that AI mode could further erode traffic and revenue from “original content publishers.”
Source link: asianews.network.
