That theresearch experience that Google is changing can be understood from various signals, starting from the quantity of innovations that are affecting theiconic browser bar. If for a long time it remained unchanged, in fact, over the last few years it has been changing and becoming one increasingly dynamic and interactive tool.
Over time, the bar has welcomed new ways of using it expanded functions. From the introduction of voice search which allowed users to ask questions verbally directly from the main interface, to the advent of Google Lens which made it possible to start searches starting from images, combining visual input with textual input with an increasingly visible icon next to the search field.
In recent months, the integration of artificial intelligence has accelerated this transformation process. From this point of view, the arrival of AI Mode and Gemini will lead to new changes. What was once just a text box is becoming an increasingly powerful and versatile interaction space, in which the user can not only find information, but also build and rework it together with artificial intelligence. Google Chrome also seems to be going in this direction, which within Canary is experimenting with the introduction of two new buttonsnamely those relating to Nano Banana and Deep Search.
Nano Banana and Deep Search in the Google search bar
Inside Chrome Canary, the experimental version of Google’s browserunder the search bar there are two new buttons, Nano Banana and Deep Search. These appear on the new tab home screen and point to transform the search experience into something much more interactive and AI-driven.
Dwarf Banana works as a shortcut to the image generation system. By pressing that button, the browser automatically fills in the search field with the phrase “Create an image of”, thus opening an immediate creative flow, without the need to type other commands. Deep Searchinstead, proposes a more thoughtful approach, inserting the prompt “Help me do a search on”, suggesting a more complex interaction that seems to exploit Gemini’s capabilities to carry out detailed searches or in-depth analysis on specific topics.
For activate these tools you need to change some advanced settings. Affected users need to go to the chrome://flags section and enable some specific options like ntp-next-features, ntp-composebox And ntp-realbox-next. After restarting the browser, the buttons should appear in the new tab, but as they are still in development, the functions are unstable and may cause crashes or remain inactive.
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The new identity of Chrome (and browsers)
These tests on Chrome Canary confirm the direction taken by Google with your browser. From a simple browser, Chrome aims to become a kind of creative platform accessible from the Google search home page. Thanks to all the innovations recently introduced with AI, Chrome will be able to assist the user in generating content, in-depth research and in building structured responses. In practice, the Search bar is no longer just a place to type links or keywordsbut it turns into a tool that directly activates cognitive processes based on artificial intelligence. An evolution, this of browsers, which does not only concern Chrome. OpenAI recently presented Atlas, a browser designed to natively integrate ChatGPT capabilities and offer an interactive and conversational browsing experience. Even earlier, Perplexity had launched Comet, an interface that combines search, text generation and automatic content synthesis.
These are all signs that show how theuse of search engines as we are used to understanding them it will no longer be the same as it no longer limits itself to showing results, but is oriented towards a model in which artificial intelligence guides, filters, creates and accompanies the user at every stage of the online experience, allowing not only to find what they are looking for, but also to create and produce content.
