Google Android Touch To Search In Chrome

Jun 9, 2015 - 8:46 am 1 by
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Last week, Google pushed out into the stable release of Chrome for Android and the Google Search App, a feature named Touch To Search.

In short, when you are reading content on a web page, you can click on and highlight words on the web page and Google will show you an option to search for that phrase.

Here is a video that demonstrates the feature incredibly well:

Here is a screen shot of it from Glenn Gabe on Twitter:

Google Touch To Search

This is pretty neat, it is not revolutionary like the Google Now concept, but it is pretty neat.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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