Users often search for recipes and travel plans on YouTube to find videos related to their queries. Now, the video platform will offer a updated tool to cater to those users’ needs with its introduction of an AI-powered interactive search feature that presents step-by-step results along with a mix of both text and video.

Through this latest “Ask YouTube” feature, users can ask questions like “plan a 3-day road trip from San Francisco to Santa Barbara” and get step-by-step results, which would be a mix of text, short videos, and longer videos instead of just video results. The organization says it will show videos and relevant video segments with titles and channel details to help users discover latest creators.

What’s more, users can ask follow-up questions like “Where can I get beneficial coffee?” and get suggestions in a similar style. This also touches on aspects of downloads.

The feature is available to Premium subscribers in the U.S. who are aged 18 or older. (Interested users will need to opt into this experiment through this URL.) Google noted that it is working on making this feature available to non-Premium users, as well.

Google has been pushing its AI mode-styled search on multiple surfaces beyond YouTube. The business introduced AI mode last year, letting users ask multi-part questions and follow-ups. This year, it introduced side-by-side web browsing and product price exploration features for AI mode. The corporation also introduced Gemini’s Canvas feature to maintain projects within AI mode last month.

With this latest feature test on YouTube, Google could later explore surfacing different kinds of videos along with sponsored placements.

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