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Google is bringing its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, to India \u2014 launching in English and Hindi \u2014 and expanding AI Mode to seven new Indian languages, as the company strengthens its presence in one of its fastest-growing markets.<\/p>\n
First introduced<\/a> in the U.S. in July, Search Live builds on Google\u2019s Project Astra technology and is available through the company\u2019s AI Mode. The feature lets users point their phone camera at objects to get real-time assistance, supporting back-and-forth conversations that draw on the visual context from the camera feed.<\/p>\n With this launch, India becomes the second market after the U.S. to get Search Live \u2014 a logical move given the country\u2019s vast base of early AI adopters, who have helped Google grow products like Gemini\u2019s Nano Banana model<\/a>. Google plans to leverage India\u2019s early adoption to train its systems on a wider range of visual contexts, making Search Live more capable over time.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople in India are power users of multimodal search, forming our largest user base for both voice and visual search globally,\u201d said Hema Budaraja, vice president of product management for Search at Google, in a new blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Search Live is starting to roll out to users in India today and will reach more people over the coming weeks. Once available, users can access it by tapping the \u201cLive\u201d icon under the search bar in the Google app, or by opening Lens and selecting \u201cLive\u201d from the bottom of the screen.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Google revealed that Search Live is powered by a custom version of Gemini<\/a>. The Gemini app separately includes a similarly named feature called Gemini Live<\/a>, which was introduced in May and offers a comparable experience. This overlap could easily confuse some users.<\/p>\n Google has also expanded its AI Mode to seven Indian languages: Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. This is part of a global AI Mode expansion, which will be available in more than 35 new languages and 40 new countries and territories<\/a>, making the AI-powered search experience accessible in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Google\u2019s AI Mode, which debuted<\/a> in the U.S. in March and rolled out to more U.S. users<\/a> in May, lets users ask complex, multi-part questions through an AI-powered interface. It launched<\/a> in India in June and expanded globally<\/a> in August. Last month, Google added five new languages<\/a> \u2014 including Hindi, Indonesian, and Japanese \u2014 to the feature.<\/p>\n \u201cThe advanced reasoning and multimodal understanding of our custom Gemini model for Search allows AI Mode to truly grasp the subtleties of local languages, ensuring AI Mode is genuinely helpful and relevant in all the new languages we introduce,\u201d Budaraju said in his post.<\/p>\n Google\u2019s AI Mode and other AI features, including AI Overviews, have faced criticism for reducing search traffic to online publishers. The company, however, has denied that its AI-driven search tools are hurting<\/a> website visits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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