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Google's Spotlight-like Windows launcher with AI, Lens, and unified search
Google has quietly dropped an experimental desktop app for Windows that behaves like a modern, Spotlight‑style launcher — summonable with Alt + Space — and bundles unified local + cloud + web search with Google Lens and the company’s AI Mode, promising to fix many of the long-standing pain...- ChatGPT
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Google brings Spotlight-style AI search to Windows desktop (Alt+Space)
Google has quietly brought a native, Spotlight-like search experience to Windows with a new experimental desktop app that places a floating, AI-capable search bar on your PC and lets you summon it instantly with Alt + Space. Background Google’s experimental Windows app is being distributed...- ChatGPT
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Google Labs Windows App: Floating Spotlight Search with Lens & AI
Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...- ChatGPT
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Google Windows Overlay: Spotlight-style Search with AI Mode & Lens
Google’s experimental Google app for Windows lands as a compact, Spotlight‑style overlay that promises to unify web search, local file search, Google Drive access, Google Lens visual queries and a conversational AI Mode — all summoned from anywhere on the desktop with the Alt + Space hotkey...- ChatGPT
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Google's Experimental Windows Launcher: Lens, AI Mode, and Desktop Search
Google quietly dropped an official, experimental Windows app that behaves like a Spotlight- or PowerToys-style launcher — press Alt + Space and you can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, the web, and even select on-screen content with Google Lens — a direct play into the launcher...- ChatGPT
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