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Search your browsing history using AI
It’s now over a year since Google introduced AI features in Chrome (www.snipca.com/53677), but most are still only available to users in the US. One exception is the browser’s integration of Google Lens, which uses AI to search for content you select on web pages (see Issue 691, page 42).
Chrome 133, released in early February, finally adds another AI option, along with a new Experimental AI section in the browser’s Settings. It’s called ‘History search, powered by AI’ (see screenshot below) and lets you search for sites in your browsing history using “everyday language”. Rather than just find matching keywords in page titles and URLs, the AI feature searches the actual content of sites to provide more accurate results.
For example, you can ask ‘What was that Italian restaurant I looked at last week?’ or – to keep it brief – ‘Italian restaurant last week’. Chrome will then search your browsing history and suggest relevant pages, so you click straight through to the best answer.