Google Adds Lens, Other AI Tools to Chrome on Desktop

Google Lens helps place objects. Plus, Tab comparison automatically creates examination charts and AI scans your history.

Google Chrome users connected Mac, PC oregon Chromebook volition soon spot immoderate caller features designed to marque searching the web much flexible. The caller features are enabled by Google Gemini and different Google AI models.

Google Chrome’s past large AI update was successful May, erstwhile it announced Gemini functionality crossed Workspace and added AI-generated answers to immoderate Search queries.

What are Chrome’s caller features?

The 3 caller features are:

• Google Lens successful Chrome connected desktop browser.
• Tab compare, an automatically generated examination instrumentality for online shopping.
• Natural connection hunt successful browser history.

Google Lens lets users prime circumstantial objects, adjacent if they are embedded wrong larger pictures, and execute searches based connected them. Image: Google

Google Lens allows users to prime circumstantial elements from a representation oregon web page. It’s champion suited for buying since it tin archer you wherever to acquisition an entity successful a photo. Google Lens answers wide queries, too, specified arsenic searching the web for a definite benignant of works oregon much accusation astir an equation.

SEE: Google Workspace was the people of a vulnerability that exposed thousands of accounts. (TechRepublic)

Google Lens successful Chrome volition beryllium accessible to click-and-drag from the code barroom oregon successful the right-click oregon meatball menu.

Tab comparison lists the attributes of products to assistance marque buying decisions. Image: Google

Tab comparison generates a illustration listing the attributes of 2 oregon much products. Users tin make a examination array for products from antithetic marketplaces and vendors, arsenic agelong arsenic they enactment those products up successful tabs with each other.

“Online examination is thing we perceive users privation assistance with,” wrote Parisa Tabriz, vice president of Chrome astatine Google, successful a press release.

Type successful the past paper successful earthy connection to hunt for sites you mightiness person forgotten. Image: Google

Perhaps the astir singular Chrome update from a information position is the quality to hunt your browsing past utilizing earthy language. Google suggests a user usage for this excessively — the question “What was that crystal pick store I looked astatine past week?” — but it could person concern applications too, specified arsenic searching crossed aggregate meetings and connection platforms.

Cautionary features successful spot astir hunt past include:

• Using the AI hunt diagnostic is optional.
• The AI hunt diagnostic tin beryllium turned disconnected successful Chrome settings.
• The AI hunt diagnostic ne'er includes browsing information from incognito mode.

Tabriz said Google is leveraging AI to marque it easier for users to “quickly get things done and find the accusation you want.”

“Our extremity is to support making your browsing acquisition adjacent much helpful, done the powerfulness of AI,” she explained. “So there’s tons much to come.”

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