In the vast majority of Android launchers, there is at least one search bar that can be used to search both local content and the web – this also applies to the Pixel Launcher. The launcher developed by Google for the Pixel smartphones seems to be facing major renovation work in this area because, after the short-term switch to the Google search bar, additional buttons have now appeared.
The Pixel Launcher offers two search bars: On the one hand, the permanently placed Google search bar on the home screen and on the other hand, the search bar above the App Drawer. The latter was suddenly replaced by the Android 13 beta through the Google search bar, but it is apparently a bug or a temporary solution. A teardown now shows that the classic bar for local app search with links to Google services is to be expanded.
If the Pixel Launcher search itself doesn’t find a result, Google Web Search is usually offered as an alternative. It will probably stay that way, but in addition, buttons for three plus one more Google products will be added: Google Maps, Google Play, YouTube and the system settings. Whether these actually from a long list or are displayed next to each other as an icon series cannot yet be said by the string entries in the teardown.
By the way, the whole thing is controlled by the still quite young layer of “Android System Intelligence”, into which Google has outsourced such things. It remains to be seen whether there will actually be an intelligence behind it and only suggest suitable entries or even display results. So far, the tool has not yet shown itself in use.