A new feature developed by Google will allow its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) to summarise articles for readers.
A summary
The feature, called “SGE while browsing” is in the experiment phase.
“When you’re trying to understand the ins and outs of a new topic, you often need to digest long or complex web pages, and it’s not always easy to hone in on specific details.
So starting today, we’re launching an early experiment in Search Labs called “SGE while browsing”, available in the Google app on Android and iOS, and coming to Chrome on desktop in the days ahead,” Google said in a blogpost.
Accessibility
This is a new feature that’s starting to roll out Tuesday as “an early experiment” in its opt-in Search Labs program.
Those already opted in to SGE will get access and for those who haven’t, can manually opt in.
It will be available first in the Google app on Android and iOS, and will be rolled out to the Chrome browser on desktop “in the days ahead.”
Paywalled pages out of scope
For those accessing the Google app on mobile, the search engine will retrieve “key points” from an article when they tap the icon at the bottom.
The feature will work “only on articles that are freely available to the public on the web”, and will be inoperable with websites that publishers mark as paywalled.
Learn more about specific keywords
Google is also working on adding more enhancements to SGE.
It said users will be able to hover over specific words in the SGE results to get definitions or diagrams about a topic.
Understand coding
It is also working to make the coding information summaries easier to understand.
“Whether you’re a new or experienced programmer, learning more about coding is probably on your running to-do list, and generative AI can be a helpful tool. Starting today, we’ll add new capabilities to SGE so it’s easier to understand and debug generated code,” Google said.
AI-facilitated writing and editing
Google is apparently working on an AI writing and editing feature for Chromebooks.
The project has at least five codenames associated with it, with the main three being “Orca”, “Mako” and “Manta”, reports 9To5Google.
