The Change of Googles Search - and the impacts on OSINT
Hello fellow OSINTers,
Google just held it's I/O conference, where they discuss new stuff. And, eventually, on Tuesday they unveiled the new 'Intelligent search box'.
From what I understand the search will become more AI-powered, and users will be encouraged to interact with the search bar, instead of putting boolean jabbering into it.
'Google redesigned this search box to give searchers more space to ask longer, deeper queries. The search box will continue to expand as the user enters the query or prompt. There is an AI-powered suggestion that Google’s Head of Search, Liz Reid, said “goes beyond autocomplete.”' (source: https://searchengineland.com/googles-new-intelligent-search-box-its-biggest-change-to-the-search-box-in-25-years-477968)
'Google is also introducing agentic capabilities and AI-powered interactive features into the search experience. This means people will spend even less time clicking the traditional blue links that Google Search used to return.' (source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/)
So, what do you as an OSINTer think about these sorts of developments?
Google - as well as other search engines - have always been a quite powerful tool. But with developments like those, the traditional way of searching the internet might get outdated (or already IS outdated; I'm not quite sure).
On the one hand side I think about new possibilities how to leverage such functionalities for investigations, on the other hand I have a 'that's no good'-feeling about it: how do we verify stuff? how will 'analysis' look like?
So, to start the discussion: what impact do you see?