Google's take on an AI search engine just got a multimodal improvement, allowing you to pull results of what you see.

Google is opening up AI Mode, the web-search chatbot it began testing in March, to "millions more Labs users in the US." AI Mode is Google’s attempt to compete with other AI chatbots that have added web-search capabilities.

After years of reading about increasing problems with the search engine, a Globe tech reporter finally experienced them firsthand — and it was a costly lesson.