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Google is expanding its AI Mode to function as a travel agent capable of tracking flight prices and booking hotels directly within the conversational interface. This shift moves the product beyond passive information retrieval to active transaction handling for specific use cases like trip planning. The integration remains dependent on third-party partners for final booking execution and customer service.
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process.
Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles.…
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