- Microsoft Edge has two new intelligent features in beta tests
- AI will help you find websites in your navigation history
- A new media control center provides a center for all media playback activity
Have you ever found a useful website, forgot to mark it, then remembered it later and had to go hunting through the history of your browser to try to find the site? This can be a frustrating experience, but Microsoft Edge aims to eliminate the pain of this scenario.
Neowin informs that from the beta version of Edge 138 for the testers (version 138.0.3351.14 to be precise), there is a new search for web history with AI.
Of course, he already obtains a search installation in Edge’s history (and the other best web browsers), but the new feature gives his search consultation a broader scope and the ability to use synonyms (and more).
Microsoft explains: “The improved search finds sites in its history even when you use synonym, phrase or typographic error.”
In summary, you can write something only vaguely related, and possibly make errors or typographic mistakes in doing so, and the AI can still solve what you are looking for, and hopefully the correct website arises.
In another part of Edge 138’s beta version, Microsoft has introduced a media control center. This is a central center that allows you to control any video or music playback that is currently underway within the browser or other activity, such as the foundry of media to another device.
Whatever is happening in terms of the media, you can deal with it from here, and the control center opens by clicking on the music note icon together from the address bar on the edge.
ANALYSIS: MODEL ON DEVICE
Remember that these characteristics are in tests at the moment. In addition to that, the search for the web history with AI is a limited deployment among the evaluators, so even if you run Edge’s beta, you may not see it for a while.
In summary, it can spend some time before this functionality progresses to the launching version of the browser, but is incoming. And with Microsoft anxious to expand AI’s powers, however, I cannot imagine that this is a characteristic that is in danger of being discarded.
For those concerned with privacy in terms of AI, they hook their tendrils in their web history, Microsoft is using a “model in the device” and the company promises that none of its data is sent from the device to the cloud or the Microsoft servers. In addition, the characteristic must be actively enabled, instead of being ignited by default.
