Google: a search “companion” will soon be integrated into the browser

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Google will soon be adding an add-on that will optimize your search results. This "search companion" will use the capabilities of Google Lens to add context to the page you're viewing in Chrome.

Google is developing a new module that will improve the results obtained on its search engine. To achieve this, the company plans to leverage two of its applications: Google Chrome and Google Lens.

Multisearch coming soon to Chrome
The Mountain View company plans to add a search "companion" to Google Chrome. When you navigate to a specific page in Chrome, you'll find nepal mobile database information in the sidebar of your page.

For now, this add-on will only be able to collect information about images and the title of the web page, as well as the searches that Chrome suggests in its address bar. After that, the module will communicate all of this information to Google Lens.

So far, the use of this "companion" is still a bit unclear, but basically, it will use the content displayed on an active page to suggest additional content. A bit like Multisearch, the Google Lens feature Google introduced some time ago.

A response to Microsoft?

This new module being developed by Chrome may be a response to Microsoft, which has been overtaken by Google, which has improved its Bing search engine with ChatGPT.

Since the beginning of the year, Google has been working hard to prepare for the arrival of Bard , a chatbot based on LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) that is there to stand up to Microsoft's. And there's a chance this "companion" could rely on Bard to add context to searches.

Since Microsoft unveiled its new version of Bing powered by ChatGPT, the company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen has been releasing updates to its products to continually offer more features. One example is Microsoft Edge 111. Additionally, Microsoft has just released Edge Copilot, which the company describes as " a powerful tool that helps users increase their productivity and efficiency ." But behind this new feature, there's also a module that collects the content of the displayed web page in order to suggest similar content that might interest you. This feature is very similar to what Google is developing for Chrome.

According to 9to5Google, development of this feature has been underway since November 2022, and it may be available in the next version of Chrome. In fact, it will likely be officially announced at the next Google I/O, on May 10th of this year.