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Google has announced three new AI features for Chrome – Google Lens integration in Chrome, Tab Compare, and a new way to check out your Chrome history.
Google Lens Is Finally Coming to Chrome for Desktop
Google Lens has been available on smartphones for a while now, and Google is now bringing it to Chrome for desktops. Once you have the Chrome update featuring the Google Lens feature, you’ll see the Google Lens icon in the address bar. Whenever you need to know information about an image you’re viewing on Chrome, you can simply click the Google Lens icon and circle the image to select it. After that, Google Lens will provide all the information related to that image in the right panel, which will open up in Chrome.
You can even ask follow-up questions if you want to know more about an image. For example, if you’ve used Google Lens to find out the name of a plant you saw in an image, you can then ask Google Lens a follow-up question like, “What is the recommended temperature to grow this plant?”
An AI-Powered Tab Compare Tool
Whenever you want to buy something online, you might find yourself switching between different tabs to check out expert reviews and product details. While juggling a few tabs is usually manageable, things get complicated if you have several open tabs with important product information. To help you in these situations, Google is introducing a Gemini AI-powered tab comparison feature that will help you review information across different tabs open in Chrome.
For example, if you’re considering buying a speaker and have related tabs open, you can use this feature to get a comparison table of speaker details. This will help you easily make a decision that would otherwise take a long time by switching between different tabs to check out various details about the speaker.
A New Way to Check Out Your Chrome History
How often do you find yourself in a situation where you visited a website a few days ago and now can’t remember its name? While you can check your Google Chrome history to find that website, it might not be easy if you accessed it a long time ago and have visited many other sites since then. To solve this problem, Google is introducing a new way to search your Chrome history.
You’ll now be able to search your Chrome history in a more conversational way using Gemini. For example, if you forgot the name of an ice cream shop website you visited last week, you can search “What was the ice cream shop I looked at last week?” The AI will then go through your Chrome history and give you results based on your search. This feature won’t look at your incognito searches, and you can turn it on or off whenever you want.
While the Google Lens feature will be released globally in the coming few weeks, the other two features will start rolling out only in the US. However, you can expect Google to gradually release this feature to other regions afterward.
