'Quick Answers' Now Live in the Latest Chrome OS Canary Build

Google's Chrome OS has just gained a new feature that would enable users to speedily search for the definitions of words and phrases while working in apps or browsing web pages. Chosen 'Quick Answers', the feature works similarly to the 'Look Upward' functionality on macOS that enables users to highlight any text to know more virtually information technology from online sources.

Believed to have been originally spotted on the Chromium code repository by Chrome Story concluding Nov, the new characteristic has just started rolling out to the Canary channel of Chrome OS and, according to Chrome Unboxed, can be enabled via the flag: #enable-quick-answers in Chrome Canary v81. The report further states that alongside definitions, the feature will also evidence pronunciations of highlighted words, as well as translations in case of foreign words and phrases.

Chrome OS Canary Testing 'Quick Answers' Feature — Screenshot Courtesy: Chrome Unboxed

Once enabled via the aforementioned Chrome flag, the feature can be accessed by highlighting any text and right-clicking on it on the latest Chrome Canary build. If at that place's no result bachelor, users volition still be able to retrieve results straight from Google Assistant much the same way as one would do on the telephone, as long as the Assistant selection is enabled on that particular device.

Do annotation that the feature is disabled by default, which means it has to exist manually activated by users wanting to check information technology out for themselves. In the absenteeism of whatsoever official word from Google, information technology's not entirely clear as to when it will eventually be available in the stable aqueduct, but that should happen in the coming months.