Google’s AI Mode in Chrome now opens links side by side in the same tab | Infinium-tech

Google, these days, is releasing multiple AI updates every few hours. After building personalized images in Gemini, the search giant is now unveiling a new AI mode experience in Chrome.

Now if you click on the links that AI Mode has presented for you, they will open in the same browser tab, along with your chats. This will simplify navigation and reduce tab clutter – no more switching back and forth between tabs.

It’s also obviously easier to ask AI mode follow-up questions in this setup. An example given by Google is searching for a coffee machine, getting some links, opening one of them, and then continuing the conversation.

Or if you want to learn about “how the different McLaren racing teams and their pit crews train”, you can check out pages related to “How to train without breaking your flow” such as on the official McLaren site. Google says that people who tested it before it went live found that “having both Search and Web side-by-side helped them focus on their tasks while discovering useful web pages”.

A new ‘Plus’ menu in the search box in Chrome on desktop or mobile will let you search within your currently open tab. You can select recent tabs and add them to your search, and you can mix and match multiple tabs, images or files (like PDFs) to bring some context to your AI mode search. Tools like canvas or image creation are also available “wherever you see the new Plus menu in Chrome.”

The bad news is that all of these updates are currently only available in the latest version of Chrome in the US. Google promises that this functionality will expand to more locations around the world “soon.”

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