Google Bard now has deeper integration with Google Search, where you can use Google Search to double-check the responses Google Bard provides. Google will then tell you if Google Search found similar content to the Bard responses or found content that differs from the Bard responses.
Starting today with responses in English, you can use Bard’s “Google it” button to more easily double-check its answers — an improvement that taps into work by Google Research and Google DeepMind, Google wrote.
When you click on the “G” icon, Bard will read the response and evaluate whether there is content across the web to substantiate it. When a statement can be evaluated, you can click the highlighted phrases and learn more about supporting or contradicting information found by Search.
Google told me it’s important to note that the links provided are content found by Search and do not imply these sources informed Bard’s initial response.
You click this “G” button and then it will analyze the response given by Bard and color-code the lines of text as illustrated above:
Google also Bard Extensions for Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights / Hotels, the expansion of the Lens integration in 40 new languages; and Bard updated its PaLM2 model. This comes a few days after I noted on X that Bard has not pushed an update in months:
It’s been over two months since Google Bard pushed out any updated https://t.co/ZRviNjvHOA pic.twitter.com/MYb89YU1Ig