With video search, users may ask a question, aim their camera at an object, and receive search results.
Users of Android and iPhone devices worldwide will be able to access the function starting at 1700 GMT by turning on “AI Overviews” in their Google app; however, during launch, the feature will only work with English.
This is the latest action taken by the tech giant to use artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the way users browse the internet.
It happened three months after OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, revealed it was testing the capability of using its chatbot to conduct searches.
This year, Google started showing AI-generated results at the top of some search searches; the results were not entirely positive.
In May, the feature came under fire for giving inconsistent and false information, such as suggesting that individuals use “non-toxic glue” to adhere cheese on pizza.
A Google spokesman at the time said that the problems were “isolated examples”. Since then, there have been fewer errors and better results.
Subsequent efforts have been made to integrate AI into search, such as the introduction of Google Lens’s capability to query still photos.
According to the company, this feature has made Lens more popular within its mobile app, which has inspired it to add further features to the function.
