Google will include the Bard chatbot in the answers provided by the search engine to make searches more like a conversation, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai said, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

The development of artificial intelligence technologies will allow the search system to respond in a timely manner to a series of search queries, says the head of Google. He does NOT believe that integrating a chatbot into search will affect Google’s business.

For years, Google’s search engine has provided short and direct answers to specific search queries, such as “What’s the weather like tomorrow?” or “What is the lei-dollar exchange rate?”. Bard integration will mean that object responses should also arrive when much more complex questions are entered than they currently are.

In February, Google announced the launch of a chatbot called Bard, but it was the most cautious launch in the company’s history, clearly under pressure from the success of ChatGPT. Google was going to release Bard, but not anytime soon.

Google announced in March that it was launching the Bard chatbot to a limited number of users in the US and UK, and the number of people who can try it out will increase in the coming months.

Google has been developing chatbot technology since 2015 and has been testing a chatbot in-house for the past few years, but was not ready to make the conversational assistant public because it would be too risky.

Google executives knew that the chatbot would give the wrong answers and hurt the company’s ad business if people stopped opening various links with ads because they no longer had to search through the links.

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