# Google AI Mode

> Google's dedicated conversational search surface, separate from AI Overviews.

## What it means in practice

AI Mode is entered deliberately and answers follow-up questions in context, while an Overview is served into a normal results page. They draw on different retrieval behavior and frequently cite different sources for the same question, so a brand strong in one can be absent from the other. Measuring them as one number hides that split.

## Category

Concept in Answer surfaces.
This definition is editorial category vocabulary, not a metric refd computes.