India, May 23 -- What do you expect to see on Google when you search the word "disregard"? For most users, it would be the format where you get the definition of the word, followed by the traditional ten blue links. However, that's not what happened when people tried to search for the word using the browser on May 22. Instead of showing familiar results, the browser responded like an AI chatbot, ready to begin or end a user's command.

Expectedly, the 'discovery' broke the internet, with many flocking to check it out for themselves. This occurred amid Google's rollout of a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and pushing the traditional links format down the page.

When people tried searching "disregard", the brows...