Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches (New York Times)

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260519/i37.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260519/p37#a260519p37" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html">Google overhauls its search box, letting users ask longer queries, upload photos and videos, and use Gemini 3.5 Flash-powered agents to automate searches</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation &hellip; </p>