{"id":58624,"date":"2014-01-16T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=58624"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:56:34","slug":"google-now-appears-in-chrome-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-now-appears-in-chrome-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Now appears in Chrome alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google now news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Now<\/a> has long been rumored to be coming to the Chrome browser and now we can see it in action. Google&#8217;s latest alpha build of <a title=\"Chrome Canary for Windows download\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome-canary.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Canary<\/a> reveals what Google Now would look like and how it would work inside a browser. Google Now will be integrated into Chrome&#8217;s notification center, which currently resides in the Windows system tray and the Mac&#8217;s menu bar. Contextually aware cards like weather, travel times, flight info, and more are displayed inside the notification center.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome Canary is still missing a ton of Google Now cards that are currently available on <a title=\"Google Search for Android download\" href=\"http:\/\/google-search-android.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"Google Now for iOS download\" href=\"http:\/\/google_search.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> but that will change as Google develops the feature.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to check out Google Now for Chrome, download the Canary build of Chrome and head over to <strong>chrome:\/\/flags\/#enable-google-now<\/strong> inside the browser and enable the feature. Relaunch the browser and the feature will be activated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58627\" title=\"Google Now Chrome Canary flags\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/google-now-chrome-flags.png\" alt=\"Google Now Chrome Canary flags\" width=\"398\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/google-now-chrome-flags.png 398w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/google-now-chrome-flags-256x119.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chrome Canary is a highly experimental build so expect bugs, though the browser will be updated nightly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Chrome Canary: <a title=\"Google Chrome Canary for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome-canary.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a> | <a title=\"Google Chrome Canary for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome-canary.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Google Operating System blog\" href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/01\/google-now-in-chrome-for-desktop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Operating System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a title=\"Google Now integration included in latest Chrome alpha\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/1\/16\/5314876\/google-now-desktop-chrome-canary-release-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-for-android-and-ios-updated-with-data-compression\">Chrome for Android and iOS updated with data compression<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-32-update\">Chrome 32 sneaks ChromeOS onto Windows 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-apps-for-mac\">Chrome Apps released for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Now has long been rumored to be coming to the Chrome browser and now we can see it in action. Google&#8217;s latest alpha build of Chrome Canary reveals what Google Now would look like and how it would work inside a browser. Google Now will be integrated into Chrome&#8217;s notification center, which currently resides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-now-appears-in-chrome-alpha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Now appears in Chrome alpha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":58628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-58624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331534,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58624\/revisions\/331534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58624"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=58624"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=58624"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=58624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}