The company would bypass traditional search results in its test browser.
Google seems to be considering the idea of giving you the option to go directly to AI mode when you perform search queries. Windows Report has discovered a new hidden flag in Chrome Canary, the most experimental variant of the browser aimed at developers and early adopters, that will take you to AI mode by default. The post confirmed that the testing feature works when enabled and noted that it looks much more complete and ready to ship than regular prototypes.
When you search on standard Chrome today, Google takes you to the “All” page which includes an AI overview with a summary of the results you get, followed by blue links leading to individual websites. You will need to switch to AI mode if you want to use it. But when the flag is enabled in Canary, you’re taken directly to AI mode, which looks and acts more like a chatbot conversation than your typical Google search results page.
Although Google has not publicly announced this test, the company has recently been integrating more and more AI features into its products. At I/O 2026, the company launched the new “Smart Search Box,” which can take videos, images, files, and even Chrome tabs as inputs for search queries. After this announcement, DuckDuckGo saw an increase in installs and usage of its AI-free search website, likely from people looking for alternatives that won’t try to force them to use artificial intelligence.
If you want to see the experimental feature for yourself, open Chrome Canary and navigate to chrome://flags. You’ll see a new option that says “Answer search box queries in AI mode.” Its description says it will work on Mac, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. At the moment, however, Google doesn’t appear to have any concrete plans to roll it out in the near future. Windows Report says he found a note from the flag code author that says: “This is just for exploration. There are currently no plans to put this online.”
