AI Features in Chrome: Discover 3 New Features! 🚀
Key Points
- Real-time malware protection is now available in Chrome, using artificial intelligence to protect against malicious websites.
- AI-powered browsing history search in Chrome allows users to find websites using everyday language.
- To activate these new features, turn on Enhanced Protection and AI-powered history search in Chrome settings.
This year, Google launched a couple of AI-powered features for Chrome, and while some are still in testing, two really caught my eye. Since I'm security-conscious, the first feature offers real-time protection against websites that malicious and the second allows you to search your browsing history using everyday language. 🔍
Real-Time Security Protection with AI
Chrome now offers real-time protection using AI to display warnings about dangerous sites. It's an improvement over the Safe Browsing from Google for those using Chrome on desktop or smartphone. 🔒
Why is this important? Because malicious sites and online scams are everywhere. These include sites that contain malware or are fraudulent in some way, such as phishing pages that are designed to manipulate you into revealing personal and sensitive information.
Google claims The previous Safe Browsing feature used a list stored on your device to check whether a site or file was potentially dangerous. This list is updated every 30 to 60 minutes, but Google found that the average malicious site actually exists for less than 10 minutes. ⏱️
With the new improvements, Chrome will check sites in real time against Google's known list of dangerous sites. It also uses AI to block attacks, perform deep file scans, and offer additional protection against malicious Chrome extensions.
How to Activate Real-Time Protection
If you want to try this, you will need to activate Protection Improved Chrome settings. Click the three-dot menu next to your profile picture in Chrome and navigate to "Settings":
Then, go to “Privacy & Security” and then “Security”:
From here, you can click the radio button next to “Enhanced Protection” to enable this feature.
Use Everyday Language to Search Your Browsing History
Chrome now offers AI-powered browsing history search, which means you can use everyday language to find exactly what you're looking for in your Chrome browsing history without needing to know an exact keyword or web address. 🌐
So even if you don't know the name of the website, if you remember anything about it, like what type of site it was or what was on it, Chrome's AI can figure it out for you! It's pretty impressive because I used it to find a health article on regenerative medicine that I forgot to save, and all I had to do was ask, "What was the tissue engineering article I saw about?"
How to Enable AI-Powered Browsing History Search
This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, click the three-dot menu next to your profile picture in Chrome and navigate to "Settings":
Next, navigate to “AI Experimental” and choose the option next to “AI-Powered History Search”:
Activate it using the scroll bar:
The feature is already enabled. Simply access your history and type something like What was the clothing store you were looking at two weeks ago?, and Chrome will show you relevant pages from your browsing history. Google states that this feature will never include browsing data in Incognito mode. You can turn it on and off in Chrome's settings as mentioned above. 🔄
In short, these two new AI features in Chrome are revolutionary. Real-time protection keeps you safe While browsing, searching your history just got a whole lot easier—what more could you ask for? 🚀
