On its blog, Google announces that its search engine will deploy “new generative AI capabilities to help you better learn and understand information on the Web”.
Google announced yesterday that its search engine will offer in the coming days a article summary functionality. Search will pass the threshold of the search results page and offer useful features within the article you are viewing.
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Behind this new proposal, it is the “Search Generative Experience” technology, the AI in the search engine, which makes all its power speak. The campaign details its capabilities: “on some pages you visit, you’ll see a bulleted list of key points in an article.” Clicking on one of these points will take you to the part of the article mentioning the information in question. Moreover, it will suffice, for example, to hover over a word with the mouse pointer to display its definition in a floating box.
Google will summarize long articles for you in a few key points
The services offered by AI will not stop there. There “Explore on page” function will immediately display “what questions the article answers, and offer access to the corresponding section to find out more”. According to Google, “these features can be particularly useful when learning something new or complex », such as programming, but they can also be useful on a daily basis when looking for a new recipe or preparing for an important purchase.
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Such a powerful technology could be misused to read normally paid content, but on this point, Google wants to be reassuring by saying that the “EMS while browsing” will not display key points generated by “AI only in articles accessible free of charge on the Web “. The feature is currently only offered to Internet users who have registered through Search Labs on Android and iOS. She arrives on Chrome desktop in the coming days.