Google is completely transforming its iconic search bar into an AI engine, shifting away from the classic box that served blue links for 25 years. The search bar now runs directly on Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model, meaning AI is no longer just a feature on top of the results, it is the core engine. Google is designing the revamped bar to handle complex tasks, execute instructions, and build personalized, interactive mini-apps or widgets on the fly. Users are inputting conversational prompts that are three times longer than traditional, keyword-based searches.
