
How Google’s Default AI Mode Is Reshaping Small Business Marketing
In May 2025, Google officially introduced AI Mode: a tab in its Search interface (and in the Google app) that delivers deeper, conversational, multimodal responses to queries, rather than just returning a ranked list of links. It’s built on Google’s “query fan-out” technique (i.e. breaking a user’s question into subqueries, merging sources) plus Gemini-powered capabilities,








