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Rajan Patel
@rajanpatel
VP, Engineering for Search @Google, Co-founder of Lens
Mountain View, CA
Joined March 2009
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    Rajan Patel
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    Dec 19, 2025
    Check out Nano Banana Pro in action, right in Google Search 🍌✨👀 After seeing folks visualize coordinates, we tried the prompt “Visualize 40.7422° N, 73.9880° W in 1916” and reran it several times, adding a decade with each go. Here’s a GIF compilation:
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    Rajan Patel
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    Mar 4, 2022
    Fun fact. 15% of the searches we see every day have never been Googled before.
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    World of Engineering
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    Mar 3, 2022
    What is something that you are 100% sure has never been Googled?
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    Rajan Patel
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    Oct 13, 2025
    Everyone’s been having a bunch of fun with Nano Banana 🍌and now the time is ripe for Search to join the party! We just started rolling out a new Create mode in Lens that lets you snap a photo and instantly transform images with AI. It should be available to most everyone in the
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    Rajan Patel
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    Jun 18, 2025
    Search Live with voice is rolling out today in AI Mode! Now you can ask anything, have a back-and-forth conversation with Search and get an instant audio response – with on-screen links to explore more on the web. Just make sure you’re opted into the AI Mode Labs experiment in
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    Rajan Patel
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    Sep 18, 2025
    AI Mode, our most powerful AI Search, is now available right from the Chrome address bar, allowing users to ask complex, multi-part questions, from the same place they already search and browse the web. We're also launching contextual search suggestions in the Chrome address bar
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    Rajan Patel
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    Apr 17, 2025
    We recently made Search much faster. As a result, we’re saving users a collective 1 million hours every single day – which means 100+ hrs saved in the time you took to read this tweet.
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    Rajan Patel
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    Nov 1, 2022
    The google homepage doesn't change often, but today it did. We're always working to expand the kinds of questions you can ask and improving how we answer them. Now you can ask visual questions easily from your desktop.
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    Rajan Patel
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    Mar 27, 2024
    As of today, you can now Search for any of your wallet addresses across bitcoin and five new EVM networks - @arbitrum, @avax, @FantomFDN, @Optimism and @0xPolygon! 🚀🚀
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    Rajan Patel
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    May 6, 2025
    Woah, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O edition) just topped the @lmarena_ai coding leaderboard! Check it out in the @GeminiApp!
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    Rajan Patel
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    Mar 4, 2022
    Replying to @hcndashwood
    Good question. This is the percentage of overall queries. It's much higher if we do not weigh the denominator by query frequency, which I think is what you mean by unique.
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    Rajan Patel
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    May 1, 2025
    Big update for AI Mode – plus new features: 🔓open access to all Labs users in the US (try it here → goo.gle/AIMode) 📍new ways to take the next steps on shopping and local recs Let us know what you think!
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    Robby Stein
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    May 1, 2025
    Starting today, AI Mode in Google Search is open to all Labs users in the US (no more waitlist). Plus, we’re adding new features to help you get things done - from shopping to planning your next local outing. More details below 🧵
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    Rajan Patel
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    Jun 20, 2021
    Algorithms are hard.
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    Rajan Patel
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    Apr 4, 2024
    Replying to @StakeWithPride
    Thank you. I can’t comment on what’s coming next but will do my best to keep you posted.
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    Rajan Patel
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    Apr 7, 2025
    Happy to share that AI Mode is now available to millions more Labs users and integrating Lens so you can get AI-powered responses and ask follow-up questions on your visual searches! 🎉
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