Google Confirms No Plans to Make AI Mode Default Search in Chrome, Calls Canary Flag an Error
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Barry Schwartz
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Google has confirmed it has no plans to make AI Mode the default search experience in Chrome, following a Chrome Canary experimental flag that redirected address bar searches to AI Mode. Google VP Rajan Patel stated this was an error. The clarification comes after Windows Report spotted the experimental flag and reported on it.
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· 3 pulledGoogle has confirmed that the search company has no plans on making AI Mode the default search experience within Google Chrome.
According to Rajan Patel, a Google VP, that was an error.
Chrome Canary added a new experimental flag that redirected searches from the address bar directly to AI Mode.
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