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Google has a new head of Search — and she’s all in on AI


The AI folks are starting to take over the Search team at Google.

This is not surprising: CEO Sundar Pichai and others have been saying for years that language models and other AI systems can both improve the quality of search results and completely change the way we think about gathering information online. Reid, in particular, has spent the last couple of years working on both AI search and multisearch, which together point to a totally new way of thinking about Google. Ahead of the SGE launch last year, Reid told me she thinks a lot about lowering the bar to asking Google your real questions.

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