Chrome is going to use AI to help you compare products from across your tabs
Google wants to help ease the pain of comparison shopping across multiple tabs in Chrome with a new AI-powered tool that can summarize your tabs into one page.
The tool, which Google is calling “tab compare,” will use generative AI to pull product data from tabs you have open and collect it all into one table. Assuming it works and pulls accurate information, the tool seems like it could be a handy way to look at a number of different products in one unified view.
But while it’s potentially useful, the tool could also take away traffic from sites that collect and compare product information — which might be especially worrying for independent publishers that are already struggling to be seen on Google. I’m also skeptical that Google...