Gemini in Chrome feels like a small step toward Google’s agentic era
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Summary
Google has integrated its Gemini chatbot into the Chrome browser, so that users can communicate with the AI through a small window in the corner of their browser rather than going to the service’s website.
This version can see what is on the user’s screen and follow them as they move through different browser tabs, but users say that it is not always consistent in providing information and wants to be more proactive in the future.
For example, it can pull recipes from a cooking video but not place an order for the user to pick up, however it could potentially be used to book mark pages on travel research.
The company is gradually developing the chatbot so that it can perform more tasks on behalf of the user, known as being “agentic” which is the company’s ultimate goal for the service.