Google's AI-Powered Search Expands To 120 Countries (image: Google Blog)

Google has finally announced the expansion of its AI-powered search experience. The Search Generative Experience (SGE) will now be available in more than 120 new countries, including Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Kenya. This major expansion comes more than two months after it was unveiled in India and Japan.

Our generative AI experiment in Search gets its largest international expansion yet. We”ve opened up access to 120+ countries and territories, and added support in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Indonesian. Learn more ↓ https://t.co/QJTWtHMiYi

— Google (@Google) November 8, 2023

With Search Generative Experience (SGE), users will be able to get AI-powered overviews that bring together the most helpful and relevant information available for their search. “With SGE, we’re showing more links, and links to a wider range of sources on the results page, creating new opportunities for content to be discovered,” Google mentioned in its blog post. Google has also enabled four new languages for everyone using SGE. It includes Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Indonesian. It already supports languages, including English, Hindi, and Japanese.

Google has also expanded the Search Labs, a new way for users to test early-stage experiments on Search. Along with the expansion, Google has also included several new features in the Search Generative Experience (SGE). Google is permitting users to ask follow-up questions directly from the search results page. Users will also be able to view their previous queries and search results as they explore a topic. Initially, this feature will be rolled out in English in the US over the coming weeks.

Google has also updated the translation feature. “Soon, if you ask Search to translate a phrase where certain words could have more than one possible meaning, you’ll see those terms underlined,” said Google. The tech giant has also made improvements to the “Definitions” feature, in which users will be able to hover over certain words to preview definitions and see diagrams or images on the topic. Google has extended this feature to more areas, including coding and health information, apart from science, economics, and history.