Google Expands Search Live AI Assistant Worldwide

Google is expanding Search Live, its AI-powered search assistant that blends voice and camera inputs to help you find answers in real time. Initially rolled out broadly in the US last September, the feature now reaches more than 200 countries and territories and supports dozens of languages, according to a Google announcement.

Search Live lets you point your phone camera at an object, scene, or product and ask a question aloud — for example, how to install a shelving unit or what plant species you’re looking at. The assistant responds with spoken answers and links to relevant web resources, aiming to make information gathering faster and more hands-free.

Google says the expansion is backed by its latest Gemini family models, which provide the on-device and cloud smarts needed to interpret visual input, understand natural language questions, and fetch helpful web links. That combination is meant to smooth out the experience so the assistant feels more conversational and useful in everyday contexts.

For users, wider availability means more people can try camera-plus-voice searches without switching apps or typing. It also extends support across many languages, which is key for usefulness in regions where English-centric features often lag. Google has published documentation detailing which languages and regions are covered, and it plans incremental updates to improve accuracy and capabilities.

Privacy and control remain part of Google's messaging. As with other search features that use camera and voice data, Search Live relies on permissions and gives users the ability to manage how their queries are handled. Google’s broader push is to integrate AI more deeply into everyday search while keeping the core web links and sources visible alongside AI responses.

Whether you’re trying to fix something at home or identify an item on the go, Search Live’s global rollout suggests Google is betting on multimodal assistants — combining sight, speech, and web knowledge — as the next step in search evolution.