Google Bard Removes Waitlist, Good points Search, Maps, Lens & More Options

Google Bard had a bunch of updates roll out at Google I/O, which I did not cover the other day, because there was a lot of core search I had to cover. Google removed the waitlist for Bard, and added Google Search, Maps, Lens, and other search-related features to the AI ​​generative service. Oh, and yes, Google added dark mode.

(1) Knowledge graph answers in Google Bard. Google said, Bard now has “helpful response along with rich visuals to give you a much better sense of what you’re exploring.”

Here is what that looks like:

Bard to be more visual by using Google Search and Knowledge Graph #googleio pic.twitter.com/O0ck6gjC89

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 10, 2023

(2) Maps in Google Bard:

Google Maps content coming to Bard #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/1G3qSV8DU4

— Greg Sterling 🇺🇦 (@gsterling) May 10, 2023

(3) Google Lens support in Google Bard:

Bard to integrate Google Lens to come up with captions on photos you upload #googleio pic.twitter.com/VKIY4hsWvQ

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 10, 2023

(4) Waitlist is now gone and Bard is open to users in 180+ countries in English, apanese and Korean and coming to more regions and languages ​​soon.

We’re also introducing Bard in Japanese and Korean, and we’re on track to support the top 40 languages ​​soon. #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/a1Ws5jvQvw

– Google Google) May 10, 2023

(5) Dark mode, which apparently a ton of people liked the most out of all the other announcements:

Been using Bard in Dark Mode lately and I honestly it’s amazing. #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/0bwiysv3Bm

— David East (@_davideast) May 10, 2023

(6) Bard running on PaLM2 now:

Google Bard is now fully running on PaLM2 #googleio pic.twitter.com/ZL2dk9lEGN

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) May 10, 2023

(7) More coding support, with new exports:

With improved math, logic and reasoning skills, Bard can now help generate, explain and debug code in 20+ programming languages ​​— and coding has quickly become one of the most popular things people are doing with Bard. #GoogleIO pic.twitter.com/Vcx5X6y0w7

– Google Google) May 10, 2023

(8) And much more:

🚀 https://t.co/MV9MjT7D00 🚀 pic.twitter.com/MzuFGBamQD

— Jack Krawczyk (@JackK) May 10, 2023

Forum discussion at Twitter.