{"id":209197,"date":"2024-03-01T04:53:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/google-chromes-new-slate-of-features-will-allow-search-even-with-a-bad-network-connection\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:25","slug":"google-chromes-new-slate-of-features-will-allow-search-even-with-a-bad-network-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/google-chromes-new-slate-of-features-will-allow-search-even-with-a-bad-network-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome&#8217;s new slate of features will allow search even with a &#8216;bad&#8217; network connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Google just <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/chrome\/google-chrome-update-february-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced a trio of features;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced a trio of features<\/a> for its Chrome browser to allow for \u201cmore helpful suggestions.\u201d Some of these tools are for the smartphone app, while others work with the standard PC-based browser.<\/p>\n<p>First up, desktop Chrome users are getting new search suggestions that pull from what others have been using the browser to look for. The browser will still remember your recent queries and auto populate related search suggestions, but you\u2019ll also see user-generated options to the right of those usual autofill suggestions, under a tab marked \u201cPeople also search for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrome users on iOS and Android will now see more images to accompany suggested searches. In the past, Chrome only displayed images for search suggestions in the address bar that exactly matched a specific query, with Google giving an example of \u201cIsanti dining table.\u201d Now, broader searches \u2014 say, \u201cbohemian table\u201d \u2014 will tie an image to each option from the pull-down menu. A picture\u2019s worth a thousand words, right?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 962px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader portrait\" style=\"padding-bottom:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"An image of the new Chrome image feature. \" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/fzDm31P9nPA7mZ6MJV_upA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTk2Mg--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-02\/72448c30-d729-11ee-9ddb-bb20f1768097\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image of the new Chrome image feature. \" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/fzDm31P9nPA7mZ6MJV_upA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTk2Mg--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-02\/72448c30-d729-11ee-9ddb-bb20f1768097\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"> Google<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Perhaps the most puzzling new feature is that Chrome for iOS and Android is getting an optimization tool that allows for search even when users have a bad network connection. Google hasn\u2019t revealed how this works, simply stating that it&#8217;s due to \u201cimproved on-device capabilities.\u201d The company says search will continue to work with a \u201cbad\u201d connection, so it\u2019s likely some level of connection will still be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>All three of these features are available today, so have at it. These are just the latest tools for the search engine, as Google seems to be constantly tweaking the service. The company recently added a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/googles-next-chrome-update-adds-three-new-generative-ai-features-170032292.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:trio of generative AI features;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> and a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/chromes-latest-experimental-ai-feature-can-help-you-write-170014645.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gemini-based writing tool.;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-chromes-new-slate-of-features-will-allow-search-even-with-a-bad-network-connection-181522574.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Google just announced a trio of features for its Chrome browser to allow for \u201cmore helpful suggestions.\u201d Some of these tools are for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341121,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209197\/revisions\/341121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}