{"id":19261,"date":"2026-04-28T01:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/19261\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:11:13","slug":"google-is-testing-ai-chatbot-search-for-youtube-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/19261\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is testing AI chatbot search for YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing<\/a> \u201ca new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,\u201d with results pulling in things like longform videos, YouTube Shorts, and text about what you\u2019re searching for. The \u201cexperiment\u201d is now available if you\u2019re a YouTube Premium subscriber in the US who is 18 or older.<\/p>\n

I turned it on for my account. Now, in the search bar, I see an \u201cAsk YouTube\u201d button, and clicking the search bar shows prompts to ask like \u201cfunny baby elephant playing clips,\u201d \u201csummary of the rules of volleyball,\u201d and \u201cshort history of the Apollo 11 moon landing.\u201d If I keep the search box blank but click the Ask YouTube button, YouTube takes me to a full page with suggested searches and a text box to ask a question.<\/p>\n

When you search with Ask YouTube, YouTube briefly shows a mostly-blank page with a loading icon, and after a few seconds, fills it out with text and details<\/a>. I tested it with the \u201cshort history of the Apollo 11 moon landing\u201d prompt. At the top of the results was a bunch of text summarizing the mission, including a bulleted list of milestones like the date of the lunar landing and Neil Armstrong\u2019s first step on the Moon. Then, the page included a video about the launch timestamped to a section about the launch day<\/a> from a channel called \u201cThe Life Guide,\u201d followed by galleries of videos under headers like \u201cFrom Launch to Splashdown,\u201d \u201cHistoric Footage and Behind-the-Scenes,\u201d and a series of Shorts about \u201cMoments on the Surface.\u201d (I assume YouTube is pulling the text for these sections from the videos highlighted in the search results.)<\/p>\n

At the end, the page has a few more suggested prompts, including \u201cWho were the Apollo 11 astronauts\u201d and (perhaps worryingly) \u201cApollo 11 conspiracy theories,\u201d and a text box I can use to ask a follow-up question or start a new search. I clicked the \u201cWho were the Apollo 11 astronauts\u201d and got a new, slightly differently-formatted set of results, including a grid with background about astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Searching for \u201cApollo 11 conspiracy theories\u201d just showed a typical list of YouTube search results, however.<\/p>\n

I threw Ask YouTube another test to see how it fared with something I\u2019m very familiar with: Valve\u2019s new Steam Controller, which I published a review of today<\/a>. I asked, \u201cWhat is the Steam Controller,\u201d and YouTube gave an overview of the controller, pointed to Valve\u2019s new video about the controller<\/a>, and highlighted both longform reviews and a \u201cQuick Hands-On Reviews\u201d section featuring Shorts (including our new Short published today<\/a> and one from last November<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It was all mostly right, but I did catch a factual flub: YouTube claimed that the old, discontinued Steam Controller had no joysticks, when it actually has one<\/a>. It was a reminder that, as potentially useful as these AI-created search result pages might seem, you need to do your due diligence to make sure they\u2019re accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing \u201ca new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,132,1429,66,2198,781,1928],"class_list":{"0":"post-19261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-ai","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-streaming","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}