Online search to make up lost time with AI

Google's AI amped search engine will slowly be released in the United States as a start, the company said. — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Online search, dominated by Google for 25 years, has become as banal as making a phone call, but it could finally be getting a profound reset thanks to artificial intelligence.

The classic search and click made ubiquitous by the Google behemoth is getting a major AI makeover as bots ChatGPT, Bard or Bing see hundreds of millions of web surfers seek answers to life's questions in a new way.