Google has a lot of updating to do because when directed to the address it listed for my dog's electric fence collar I arrived at a shop which informed me that the business I was looking for had moved over a year ago

 

Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution.

AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches.

By Brian X. Chen

Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the tech we use.