Yesterday, we briefly discussed all of the fantastic changes Google has made in Chrome OS 90 including the new diagnostics and scanning apps, and live caption. This morning, I wanted to give some laser focus to the new enhancements that have been baked directly into your Chromebook’s launcher. By tapping or clicking the ‘Everything button’, you can search the web, your installed apps and web apps, bookmarks, history, and more in Chrome, your Google Drive files – you name it – it’s basically Google search, with the inclusion of searching personal data and local storage.
The launcher also has Google Assistant built-in, but I don’t really know many people who use it to the extent that Google probably hoped they would. We’ve already heard that the company has plans this year and moving forward to incorporate a more helpful machine learning and AI toolset into Chromebooks using Assistant. Today, we may very well have gotten the first glimpse at this. In a blog post, Google made mention of the ability to quickly get answers for several common things directly from within your launcher. Now, there’s no longer any need to open a bunch of temporary tabs for simple tasks like calculations, checking the weather, and so on.
