Google AI Mode asks searchers to 'continue with this search'
Google has begun showing a "continue with this search" prompt to people entering AI Mode, encouraging them to carry on a search they had started rather than abandon it. The message was spotted by Damien Andel, who came across it after tapping a trending topic in the Google Discover widget and being taken into AI Mode through an image search.
Andel said he had not seen the prompt in AI Mode before and asked whether the warning was new. Barry Schwartz, who wrote up the sighting, suggested the trigger was less about the Discover click path and more about returning to AI Mode, where Google wanted him to resume a recent query.
Schwartz also floated a second reading: the prompt may work as a check against bots and scrapers hitting AI Mode, following other sign-in and continue buttons Google has used to verify humans. For brands chasing citations in AI answers, the change matters because it sits at the point where a query is either run or dropped, and any friction there shapes how much AI Mode traffic and citation exposure a page can attract.
Reported by Search Engine Roundtable ↗
Topics: AI Mode, Google Search