Those responsible for Google do not stop improving one of their star products such as the Internet browser, Chrome . For this they launch new and more advanced functions, as is the case that we will talk about now. Specifically, it focuses on the autocomplete function of the address bar that suggests web pages.
We tell you this because we can already activate a substantial improvement that the search giant is currently testing. With all this, what it wants is that the aforementioned function is more intelligent, it suggests URLs that we really want to visit, and save us efforts, of course. This is something that is currently being carried out through a test flag, as we will show you.
Google wants Chrome to be smarter at suggesting websites
Say that most web browsers support autocomplete functionality that is activated when users type in the address bar. Google Chrome is not an exception, since it can suggest a URL of the ones that are already open in the tabs. You can also show us results from your browsing history or search suggestions. But of course, until now this functionality was a bit limited. For example Chrome does not suggest a web site as a result if you do not write part of the title or if you write a part but not the root domain .
So right now Google is conducting an experiment that changes that. This way we can customize the queries so that the web browser returns them as the first suggestion. In this way we will obtain results in the address bar more in line with what we are looking for, even if we do not write the beginning of the root domain.
With the change that we will show you, what we achieve is that Chrome changes the logic it uses to display suggestions based on the inputs we type.
How to test the new smart search feature
Well, to test all this, this is something that we can already do from the last stable version of the browser. So, those who want to test this need to enable an experimental flag . Simply enter chrome: // flags / # omnibox-rich-autocompletion in the address bar to access the option.
Here we will find different options to mark, depending on the type of content that we want to give priority to in the suggestions in the address bar. Also this specifies the way in which these are going to be displayed when typing searches in this place. Therefore, after restarting the browser we will be able to test it.
At the same time, Chrome Canary users can also activate two additional flags. These are Omnibox Rich Autocompletion Min Characters and Omnibox Rich Autocompletion Show Additional Text on the chrome: // flags / page.
Say that the first one helps us to establish the minimum length of the characters in the suggestions, and the second disables the title of the suggestion or the additional text of the URL. And it is necessary to bear in mind that the taskbar is an extremely important element in browsers. This is used by multiple tasks, so it must be at the same time an element that is increasingly useful to us in our day to day with the software .
