Google Search Live Goes Global — AI Conversational Search Now in 200 Countries
Google has expanded Search Live — its real-time AI conversational search feature — from just two markets to over 200 countries and dozens of languages in a single sweeping announcement. Until Thursday, Search Live was limited to users in the United States and India. The global rollout, powered by the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model, marks the most geographically significant launch of a Google AI product since the original Gemini debut.
Search Live lets users have ongoing spoken conversations with Google Search rather than entering discrete queries. The experience is closer to talking to a knowledgeable assistant than typing into a search box — users can ask follow-up questions, request clarifications, and get contextual answers that carry thread across the conversation. With Gemini 3.1 Flash Live's sub-200ms latency underpinning the experience, the feature should feel genuinely responsive across every new market it reaches.
The scale of today's rollout is hard to overstate. Hundreds of millions of users worldwide are gaining access to AI-native search for the first time through this single announcement, and in many markets, Gemini-powered voice search will be their first meaningful encounter with conversational AI at all. Google is no longer testing the AI search transition — it is deploying it globally.