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Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.
What I just discovered: The good old google search without AI bloat but with privacy via https://www.startpage.com. Highly recommended!
Serious question, not snark: Does anyone actually want this? I honestly can't imagine a use for these features even among people tech savvy enough to understand them.
I must be using web browsers completely wrong. Like browsing a page isn't a problem for me. I can do it at the speed of my needs. I'm having a hard time understanding why I will tell gemini to create an account on some website for me or send an email. Those are usually just a tab away. That's why I feel like I'm missing something here.
I feel that way about IDEs too, though. My text editor has snippets, my file manager shows me what files are where, and my terminal lets me run programs. Why it's important to people that these functions to be grafted into a single window escapes me.
> We’re also bringing the creative power of Nano Banana directly into Chrome, allowing you to transform images on the fly without needing to download and re-upload images or open another tab. Are there really people who are like "Man, if only I could this straight in Chrome" ? Is this something worth bloating a browser (further) with?
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I feel that way about IDEs too, though. My text editor has snippets, my file manager shows me what files are where, and my terminal lets me run programs. Why it's important to people that these functions to be grafted into a single window escapes me.
This is satire, right?
I must be using web browsers completely wrong. Like browsing a page isn't a problem for me. I can do it at the speed of my needs. I'm having a hard time understanding why I will tell gemini to create an account on some website for me or send an email. Those are usually just a tab away. That's why I feel like I'm missing something here.
Basically none of their examples are just "browse a page"? They're multi-step tasks combining data from multiple pages. Like the first example in the demo carousel (the Y2K party) starts from a photo and a prompt of roughly "buy the props needed for replicating this photo from Etsy". It first analyzes the image in the current tab, identifies a bunch of things to buy, searches for them on Etsy, customizes the orders,…
It’s as if they used AI to generate use cases for their AI tool because they weren’t really sure what it’s for…
> We’re also bringing the creative power of Nano Banana directly into Chrome, allowing you to transform images on the fly without needing to download and re-upload images or open another tab. Are there really people who are like "Man, if only I could this straight in Chrome" ? Is this something worth bloating a browser (further) with?
I think Google PMs would respond by saying that nobody in 2007 was like "Man, if only I could get rid of the physical keyboard on my smartphone". You know, the whole "faster horse" argument.