The company is reportedly bypassing classic search results in its test browser.
It appears that Google is considering giving you the option to go straight to AI mode when performing search queries. windows report A new hidden flag has been discovered in Chrome Canary, the most experimental version of the browser for developers and early adopters, that will take you into AI mode by default. The publication has confirmed that the test feature works when enabled and noted that it looks much more complete and ready to ship than the usual prototype.
When you make a search query on regular Chrome today, Google will take you to an “All” page that includes an AI overview with a summary of the results you found, followed by blue links that lead to individual websites. You have to tab to AI mode if you want to use it. But when the flag is enabled in Canary, you’re taken straight to AI mode, which looks and acts more like a chatbot conversation than your typical Google search results page.
Although Google hasn’t publicly announced this testing, the company has been putting more and more AI features into its products recently. At I/O 2026, it launched the new “Intelligent Search Box”, which can take videos, images, files, and even Chrome tabs as input for search queries. Following that announcement, DuckDuckGo experienced a surge in installs and usage of its no-AI search website, most likely from people looking for alternatives that wouldn’t try to force them to use artificial intelligence.
If you want to check out the experimental feature yourself, open Chrome Canary and go to chrome://flags. You’ll see a new option that says “Complete searchbox queries in AI mode.” Its description says that it will work on Mac, Windows, Linux and ChromeOS. However, as of now, Google has no concrete plans to launch it any time soon. windows report He says he received a note from the author of the flag’s code that reads: “This is for exploration only. There are no current plans to make it live.”
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