Every day, students around the world search to learn and explore. Today through Wednesday, our Google homepage Doodles will feature three topics people frequently search for information about during the school year: quadratic equations, photosynthesis and DNA. Clicking on the Doodles will take you directly to AI Mode, where you can continue exploring and learning about these complex topics.

With AI Mode, our most powerful AI search experience, you can ask whatever’s on your mind and get detailed explanations. You can also follow up, verify information and dig deeper with helpful links to content across the web. Find AI Mode as a tab in Search or access it in the Google app for Android or iOS.

Every month, people translate around 1 trillion words across Google Translate, Search and in visual translations in Lens and Circle to Search. Now, thanks to AI, we’re making it even more effortless to overcome language barriers. Using the advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities of Gemini models, we’re bringing two new features to Translate to help with live conversations and language learning.

Live conversations translated in real time

Exploring the world is more meaningful when you can easily connect with the people you meet along the way. To help with this, we’ve introduced the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation in real time with audio and on-screen translations through the Translate app. Building on our existing live conversation experience, our advanced AI models are now making it even easier to have a live conversation in more than 70 languages — including Arabic, French, Hindi, Korean, Spanish, and Tamil.

To try it out, open the Translate app for Android or iOS, tap on “Live translate,” select the languages you want to translate and simply begin speaking. You’ll hear the translation aloud and see a transcript of your conversation in both languages on your device. Translate smoothly switches between the two languages you and your language partner are speaking, intelligently identifying conversational pauses, accents and intonations. This allows you to have a natural conversation with just a single tap.

To get started, search for something like “week-long trip this winter to a city with great food, nonstop only” or “10 day ski trip to a world-class resort with fresh powder.” You’ll see the best bargains available that match your search, including destinations you may not have previously considered.

What makes Flight Deals unique is that it uses Google’s advanced AI to understand the nuances of what you’re looking for and identify matching destinations. Then, it’ll tap into real-time Google Flights data to quickly show you relevant, up-to-date options from hundreds of airlines and booking sites.

We’re launching Flight Deals in beta to gather feedback and explore how AI can improve travel planning. But we know you love the original Google Flights, and that’s here to stay (in fact, it will keep getting better: we’re adding a new option to exclude basic economy fares for trips in the U.S. and Canada).

Over the next week, Flight Deals will roll out in the U.S., Canada and India — no opt-in required. You’ll be able to try it out by heading straight to the Flight Deals page, or via the top-left menu on Google Flights. We hope this helps you book an amazing trip (at an amazing price), and we look forward to your feedback!

Beginning this week, you’ll see us testing a new Google Finance, reimagined with AI at its core. Here’s what to expect:

Research your finance questions with AI: Now, you can ask detailed questions about the financial world and get a comprehensive AI response, all with easy access to relevant sites on the web. Rather than looking up individual stock details, you can ask your complex research questions in one go, to get helpful analysis and novel insights.

Access advanced charting tools: New, powerful charting tools will help you visualize financial data beyond simple asset performance. You can view technical indicators, like moving average envelopes, or adjust the display to see candlestick charts and more.

Get real-time data and news: Explore more kinds of market data than ever before, including commodities and additional cryptocurrencies. And with a new live news feed, you can see up-to-the minute headlines and track the latest market intel.

Over the coming weeks in the U.S., you’ll begin to see this new experience on google.com/finance, with the option to toggle between the new and classic design.

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now.

At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insights on the data we’re seeing, as well as more about our approach with AI in Search.

Traffic trends from Google Search

Overall, total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been relatively stable year-over-year. Additionally, average click quality has increased and we’re actually sending slightly more quality clicks to websites than a year ago (by quality clicks, we mean those where users don’t quickly click back — typically a signal that a user is interested in the website). This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in aggregate traffic — often based on flawed methodologies, isolated examples, or traffic changes that occurred prior to the roll out of AI features in Search.

So what’s going on? With AI Overviews, people are searching more and asking new questions that are often longer and more complex. In addition, with AI Overviews people are seeing more links on the page than before. More queries and more links mean more opportunities for websites to surface and get clicked. For some questions where people are looking for a quick answer, like “when is the next full moon,” people may be satisfied with the initial response and not click further. This has also been true for other answer features we’ve added, like the Knowledge Graph or sports scores. But for many other types of questions, people continue to click through, as they want to dig deeper into a topic, explore further or make a purchase. This is why we see click quality increasing — an AI response might provide the lay of the land, but people click to dive deeper and learn more, and when they do, these clicks are more valuable.

While overall traffic to sites is relatively stable, the web is vast, and user trends are shifting traffic to different sites, resulting in decreased traffic to some sites and increased traffic to others. People are increasingly seeking out and clicking on sites with forums, videos, podcasts, and posts where they can hear authentic voices and first-hand perspectives. People are also more likely to click into web content that helps them learn more — such as an in-depth review, an original post, a unique perspective or a thoughtful first-person analysis. Sites that meet these evolving user needs are benefiting from this shift and are generally seeing an increase in traffic.

Building AI in Search to highlight the web

As a search company, we care passionately — perhaps more than any other company — about the health of the web ecosystem. We continue to send billions of clicks to websites every day and believe that Search’s value exchange with the web remains strong.

We take a distinct approach in how we build our AI experiences: they’re built to highlight the web. In other words, it’s not the web or AI — it’s both. We’ve trained our models to deeply understand the web and when and how to link to the most relevant sites. And our AI responses feature prominent links, visible citation of sources, and in-line attribution. This isn’t just helpful for websites; it also helps users learn where information is coming from and how they can explore further. And websites always have control over how content is highlighted or included in Search with open web protocols, which we respect and follow. We’re committed to highlighting high-quality content on the web and we will continue to refine how we do it.

The web has existed for over three decades, and we believe we’re entering its most exciting era yet. Technology shifts bring change, but they also bring extraordinary opportunity. We believe that AI will be one of the most expansionary moments for the web, empowering us all to ask vastly more questions and creators to reach more deeply engaged audiences. We’ll continue to help businesses, creators and websites seize these opportunities as we build this future together.