US EditionGoogle Search Gets New Plus Button To Upload Images and Docs for AI Analysis
Google's new plus button enables AI-powered image and document uploads in Search, leveraging Gemini's analysis to enhance user queries amid AI competition.
- Recently, Google added a plus button to Google Search that lets desktop users upload images and documents directly into Google AI Mode for analysis.
- This year, Google has been accelerating AI integration across its products amid rivalry with OpenAI, with observers saying Gemini 3 pressured OpenAI and prompted GPT-5.2's release.
- Users upload a file to the search bar, type a question about it, and receive a response in Google AI Mode; Gemini analyzes content, enabling queries like model-kit instructions or guitar image details, with only one document at a time.
- The addition seems experimental and limited to a small set of users, with no formal announcement, while Google's scale offers advantages like extra Google Drive storage and massive context windows in Gemini.
- By adding uploads to the main Search bar, Google could make AI-assisted Q&A more common among everyday users, saving steps for existing users and signaling priorities, observers say.
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Google's search bar incorporated a new button that replaced the traditional magnifying glass icon in some users.This new feature allows you to attach images or files and use them as a basis for advanced searches using the AI mode.Although the main page of Google.com maintains its usual appearance, the change is already visible to certain users.On the left end of the search bar now appears the symbol, which replaces the classic magnifying glass…
Google integrates a new "+" button on its home page. Located on the left of the search bar, it allows you to import files and images to directly launch the IA mode, without clear warning. This change is intended to make document analysis by AI more accessible, although the functionality is not yet available in France.
What Is the New '+' Button in Google's Search Bar: so You Can Add Files or Images to Use the Ia Mode
Google's search bar has incorporated a new '+' button that, located at the left end, replaces the usual magnifying glass icon to give way to the AI mode, as it allows attach images or files and use this base content to perform an advanced search.
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