Google Search Now Fully Powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, Generating AI Pages Instead of Blue Links

ALM Corp / The Agency Journal·medium signal

Google's Search bar is now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, generating custom AI-summarized pages in response to queries rather than returning the traditional list of links — a change Google calls its most significant Search update in over 25 years, rolled out through mid-June 2026. Instead of a stack of blue links, Search answers the query directly and builds a page around that answer. For builders and anyone shipping content, this is a structural shift in discovery and SEO economics: click-through to source pages drops as the answer layer absorbs the query.