Google launches Connected Apps Platform: MCP apps inside Search and Gemini
VeryWellVersed · x · 2026-10-29
Beyond the Gemini 4 Carbon buzz, Google quietly launched something potentially bigger: the Connected Apps Platform preview.
- Developers can build apps using MCP; once approved, users link once and can access their data and take actions in the app directly from Google Search and Gemini.
- A new set of Connected Apps partners is rolling out alongside.
- The author ties this to Sundar Pichai's remark that Search will become an agent manager: after 25 years of connecting people with websites for information, functionality now matters — businesses will be found on Search by helping people (and their agents) get things done.
A landmark shift of Search from an information gateway to an agent execution platform.
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