Gemini on Chrome is getting a new “Select from Screen” tool on the desktop

Google is clearly in love with the idea of ​​using screen content to start searches, and over the years we’ve seen variation after variation on the same theme. Google Lens for Circular to search. Google has never been one to shy away from a little redundancy, and this week it’s sharing its latest tool to pull off such a trick.

Google updated earlier this week Gemini on the Chrome support pages introducing a new “Select from Screen” tool for Chrome on the desktop. Accessing it is quite simple, users first need to click on the “Ask Gemini” button and then click on the plus sign of the Add Gemini menu. Here, you can finally select “Select from Screen” to start drawing a box around the content you want Gemini to view. This includes multiple screen areas. When you have them all highlighted, you can go ahead and submit your instruction to Gemini.

There’s everything you need to use it, and as you can probably see, it already feels very close to Chrome’s integration with Google Lens, only here it leans more towards Gemini, while Lens takes you to the regular Google Search page – one you can still always link to, to be fair. AI Fashion.

You obviously need to enable Gemini in Chrome to take advantage of this login feature, and that requires logging into the browser with a Google account – it won’t work Anonymous. If that bothers you, Chrome’s Lens support still works without an account in Incognito mode.

Chrome users should start seeing “Select from Screen” in their browser now. If you don’t get it (and make sure you’ve enabled Gemini in Chrome first), make sure you update to the latest Chrome 149 release.