Google brings Gemini and AI mode deeper into Chrome
Google attaches Gemini and Chrome closer to each other, allowing Gemini a wider access to your chrome tabs while quietly transforming the address bar into an entry point for its AI mode. Finally, this will also add agent navigation to Chrome.
This last point is probably what Google wants to point out to the wider market, because to follow the pace (or exceed) the other manufacturers of navigators who deploy an agency AI is considered a leadership movement. But agent navigation will make its beginnings in the coming months, while the tighter integration of Gemini with Chrome is coming soon today.
One day there is, you can type “best laptops” in Microsoft Edge on your PC and receive a summary of Copilot results above a list of links. In Chrome, provided that AI mode has not been activated, Google would exactly return this search results list. Later this month, Google makes omnibox a repository for AI mode: which was once the “address bar” over time has become a search box, and now it is transformed into something more.
Essentially, Google seems to be a step in the merger of Gemini and research in Chrome, as he said in May – it simply has not yet been successful. Then, the users were able to try Gemini in Chrome with a paid subscription, allowing them to see the Gemini “Sparkle” hover over the content of the page. Today, Google has removed this paid limitation.
Now that Gemini is added to Chrome, users will be able to “ask” questions on the page via a sidebar. If you “search” via omnibox, you can receive an “AI mode” result. The AI mode in the omnibox will take place later this month. Users can switch between traditional research and a request in AI mode by clicking on the small “chip” in AI mode.
We still do not know why Google has both an “omnibox” for web pages and research requests, as well as a distinct “box” dedicated to Gemini queries.
Gemini in Chrome, however, can now rely on more of your own information for the context: not only what is on the page, but also your other open chrome tabs, your browser history and even Google apps like Gmail and Calendar.
Questioning the history of your browser looks a bit like Microsoft reminder, but without the brass band or controversy. Here, Google suggests using an prompt like “What was the website I saw the nut office last week?” Or “What was this blog I read at school back to school?”
If you have a question on a page you consult, Google will provide some suggestions.
Google’s road to agency navigation
Like Microsoft in Edge and Opera with its own version, Google has also demonstrated agent navigation. However, it looks like all the other demo of the agent navigator I saw: give it a task and goes to the AI agents to finish it. In this case, Google has already offered an overview of aging technology in May as “Project Mariner”.
When the process (in this case, a purchase task) ends, you have the possibility of looking at it and making a final decision to pay or not.
The idea is that agency AI could be used to plan travel, manage purchases or even combine both. In this case, however, Google’s agency agent will be limited to English -language web pages, according to the managers of the company. The functionality will unroll “in the coming months,” said Google.
IA -based security also
Google AI is applied to personal web security. It is not only a question of detecting the scams that could encourage you to download software, it also blocks sites that push for false competitions or draws, and even the reduction of low -quality sites that require unusual authorizations, such as access to the camera.
Google also said it would use AI to detect compromise passwords that have been disclosed in a data violation. Today, it just alerts you and points to the site to change them. On some sites, Google says it can now reset and secure the password updated for you.
There are intelligent uses of AI here, but it also seems that Google slowly relieves us in the future where AI responds to our requests instead of showing a list of links. What will it be Chrome, who started life as a web browser and is now evolving in a showcase for Google AI? The jury has always been released on this one – well, not legally.
