India, July 2 -- On Tuesday, if you visited Google or opened your Chrome browser, you may have noticed something a little different. The homepage featured an animated doodle. Click it, and you're taken straight to AI Mode, Google's new step in redefining how we search online. The doodle even had a share button.

"AI Mode is where we will first bring our frontier capabilities into search," CEO Sundar Pichai expressed.

So, what exactly is AI Mode, and why is Google pushing it front and center?

AI Mode is Google's fresh take on search. Now instead of just returning a list of links, it combines same search results with AI-generated summaries and answers, pulling in content from across the internet. The idea? Give users quicker, clearer resp...