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Google Search’s AI Mode: The Future of Booking Reservations
Google Search’s AI Mode can now help you book restaurant reservations, or at least get you to the booking page. On Thursday, the tech giant announced that its AI Mode has new “new agentic capabilities,” including helping users book restaurant reservations, with more to come. AI mode is already available in the U.S., the UK, and India, and Google said it’s now expanding to more than 180 countries and territories, though only in English, for now.
How It Works
When you’re in AI Mode on Google Search, you can describe the kind of dinner reservation you’re looking for, including party size, dietary restrictions, date, time, cuisine, etc., and Google’s underlying AI models will fan out across the internet and create a list of restaurants with available reservations that fit your criteria. When you’ve found a reservation that works, AI Mode will take you to the booking page.
The ability to streamline reservations in AI Mode soft-launched in Labs, Google’s testing ground for new AI features, and it’s only available to AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. However, it’s a sign that Google is working on launching more widespread agentic features soon.
The Future of Agentic AI
The advent of the agentic web promises to automate tedious tasks and research, offloading it to our personalized AI assistants. If AI tools can deliver on this promise, the technology could restructure how we interact with the internet. This is an early glimmer of how agentic AI is taking shape online.
