Google Chrome Now Lets You Search Words with a Single Tap on Android
Jun. 25, 2020Google Chrome on Android has gained the ability to let youquickly search for a word’s definition with just a single tapon the word without leaving the current tab.
With this neat addition, you canseamlessly search for definitions of words on the web page with minimal efforts. When you tap on a word, a bar will appear to the bottom of the page. You can pull up the bar to see more information.
However, the scope of the feature remains limited for now. For instance, I tried using the feature on Twitter and it just didn’t respond. The same happened on this website as well.
In case you’re not seeing the feature, you maymanually enable it with the help of aChrome flagnamed “Contextual Search definitions”. To do so, visit “chrome://flags”, search for “Contextual Search definitions”, enable and restart the browser. The flag enables “touch-activated contextual definitions of words on a page to be presented in the caption of Touch to Search”.
As per the report, the feature doesn’t seem to be limited to Chrome. One of the sources of Android Police claims to have enabled the feature on Brave Browser, which is based on Chromium. Hence, we could be seeing this feature on all Chromium-based browsers on Android.
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