Google Drive files are about to be displayed on the Chrome new tab page

As usual, Google is ready to release new updates and features to one of its most used and popular products: Chrome. The browser, which now reigns undisputed in the usage charts on devices all over the world, is about to receive two important features and tricks that will make it even easier and more intuitive to use. This is the integration with Google Lens and the new panel dedicated to the files on our Google Drive present when a new tab is opened.

Google Lens is a truly exceptional tool, with some amazing capabilities that have so far been appreciated above all on Android smartphones. The lens is in fact able to identify objects and text through images or from the real world thanks to the camera. All of this is also coming to Chrome for desktop, according to what Google announced in these hours in the annual Search On event. The new feature is coming in the coming months and will be able to select text, images and videos from a web page, which will then be processed to show the results of its search in the tab we are using, making the process lean and fast.

Clearly, this is a step forward compared to the current search methods, which force the user to copy and paste the contents to search for in another tab. In addition to this, Lens will be able to decipher the objects present in an image, a decisive step forward compared to searching by images. These improvements are certainly the result of the implementation of MUM (Multitask Unified Model) which in the mobile environment will be able to answer our questions regarding the images analyzed.

As a next step comes to the possibility of searching directly from the search bar for our files on Google Drive the new panel is displayed when a new tab is opened. The panel is placed below the grid of the most visited sites and will show the “files with the highest priority” so that you can access them more quickly. This option will be available for both personal and Workspace accounts, for which the panel will be enabled by default but can only be disabled by the admin.

The options regarding the new Chrome feature are found in the customization section of the home page, and if you are interested in the new integration with Drive, you must make sure that the My shortcuts option is activated, usually active by default.

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