Google is updating its ubiquitous search engine with the next generation of its artificial intelligence technology as part of an effort to provide instant expertise amid intensifying competition from smaller competitors.

Google is also expanding the existing AI Overviews that appear at the top of search results, making them 'faster and higher quality' for math, coding, and multimodal questions.

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