Google’s AI Overviews In Search Now Let Mobile Users Ask Follow-Up Questions

Google has started integrating its new AI Mode in Search into AI Overviews, the ChatGPT-like answers that show up at the top of search results. Starting today, mobile users who want to dive deeper after reading an AI Overview can now ask follow-up questions, which will initiate the same AI Mode experience that’s currently available by tapping the dedicated button under the Search Bar.

“Now, you can easily ask a follow-up question right from an AI Overview, and jump into a conversational back and forth with AI Mode. In our testing, we’ve found that people prefer an experience that flows naturally into a conversation — and that asking follow-up questions while keeping the context from AI Overviews makes Search more helpful,” the company explained today.

The ability to switch to AI Mode from an AI Overview is now available globally, except in markets like France where both features aren’t available yet. In addition to this new “seamless search experience,” as Google describes it, the company is upgrading AI Overviews with its Gemini 3 model to give users “a best-in-class AI response right on the search results page.”

As of today, Google only shows AI Overviews at the top of search results when its systems “determine that generative AI can be especially helpful – for example, when you want to quickly understand information from a range of sources.” However, Google acknowledges that AI responses may sometimes include mistakes, so users may want to check links to sources to make sure that the information from AI Overviews and follow-up questions through AI Mode is accurate.