- Microsoft Edge has two smart new features in beta testing
- AI helps you find sites in your browser history
- A new media control center provides a hub for all media playback activity
Have you ever found a useful web page, forgot to book it, then remembered about it later and had to go hunting through your browser story to try to find the site? This may be a frustrating experience, but Microsoft Edge aims to remove the pain from such a scenario.
Neowin reports that the Beta release of Edge 138 for testers (version 138.0.3351.14 to be precise), there is a new AI-driven web history search.
Of course, you already get a search facility in Edge’s history (and the other best web browsers out there), but the new feature gives your search query a wider extent and the ability to use synonyms (and more in addition).
Microsoft explains: “Improved search finds sites in your story, even when using a synonym, phrase or typo.”
In short, you can write something only guard related and possibly make mistakes or typos when you do, and AI will still be able to find out what you’re looking for – and hopefully surface the right site.
Elsewhere in the Beta of Kant 138, Microsoft has introduced a media control center. This is a central hub that allows you to control any video or music playback currently in the browser, or other activity, such as casting media to another device.
Whatever happens media, you can handle it from here and the control center is opened by clicking the Music Note icon from the address bar at the edge.
Analysis: On-Device Model
Remember that these features are just in testing at the moment. On top of that, the AI-driven web history search is a limited roll-out among testers, so even if you run the beta off the edge, you may not be able to see it for a while.
In short, it may be some time before this functionality progresses to the release version of the browser, but it is in -depth. And with Microsoft eagerly to expand AI forces, however, I can not imagine that this is a feature that is in any danger of being discarded.
For those who are concerned about privacy in terms of AI that links his kendr to your web history, Microsoft uses an “on-the-DE-Device Model” and the company promises that none of your data will ever be sent from the device in the cloud or to Microsoft’s servers. In addition, the feature must be actively enabled instead of being on by default.
