Google rolls out new Windows desktop app with Spotlight-like search tool

Google announced connected Tuesday that it’s launching a caller experimental app for Windows that’s designed to assistance radical find what they request faster. The app volition let radical to usage an Alt + Space shortcut to instantly hunt for accusation from their machine files, installed apps, Google Drive files, and the web.

The hunt barroom works akin to Mac’s Spotlight search, which lets users rapidly find thing connected their instrumentality and connected the web.

The caller app is disposable via Search Labs, Google’s experimental programme that lets radical trial early-stage features and supply feedback earlier they are broadly released.

Google notes that the app has Google Lens built in, which means radical tin prime and hunt thing connected their surface to bash things similar rapidly construe images oregon text, get assistance with mathematics homework, and more. Users tin besides get deeper responses successful Google’s AI Mode, its hunt diagnostic that lets users inquire complex, multi-part questions via an AI interface.

Users person the enactment to power betwixt each results, AI mode, images, shopping, and videos, and more. There’s besides the enactment to power to acheronian mode.

The caller app is disposable successful English and for users successful the U.S. A PC with Windows 10 oregon up is required.