Google has been building several products around the same idea since 2026: people should get results through text prompts without programming anything themselves. In July the company added AI image generation to image search, in August Sheets Canvas followed, turning spreadsheets into clickable mini-apps, and in October Playground arrived as a platform for full browser games.
This dossier tracks the individual steps in this product line and places them within Google's broader strategy of bringing code-free, AI-driven creation into as many of its own services as possible.