• Real-time malware protection is now available in Chrome, which uses AI to protect against malicious websites.

• AI-powered browsing history search in Chrome allows users to find websites using everyday language.

• To enable these new features, turn on Enhanced Protection and AI-powered history search in Chrome Settings.

Google released a couple of AI features for Chrome this year, and while some are still in testing mode, there are two that really caught my attention. With security in mind, the first feature offers real-time protection against malicious websites and the second allows you to search your browsing history in everyday language.

Real-time security protection with AI

Chrome now offers real-time protection using AI to display warnings about potentially dangerous sites. It’s an improvement to Google Safe Browsing for anyone using Chrome on a desktop or smartphone.

Why is this important? It is important because malicious sites and Online scams are everywhere.. These sites include websites that contain malicious software or are fraudulent in some way, such as phishing websites that are designed to manipulate you into disclosing your personal and confidential information.

google statuses Previous Safe Browsing used a list stored on your device to check if a site or file was known to be potentially dangerous. This list is updated every 30 to 60 minutes, but Google found that the average malicious site actually exists for less than 10 minutes.

With the new improvements, Chrome will compare sites to Google’s server-side list of known dangerous sites in real time. It also uses AI to block attacks, perform deep file scans, and offer additional protection against malicious Chrome extensions.

How to enable real-time protection

If you want to try this, you’ll need to turn on Enhanced Protection in Chrome settings. Click the three-dot menu next to your profile photo in Chrome and navigate to “Settings:”

Next, go to Privacy and security and then Security:

From here, you can click the radio button next to Enhanced Protection to activate this feature.

Chrome now waits Block 25% more phishing attempts with real-time protection through AI.

Use everyday language to search your browsing history

Chrome now offers AI-powered browser history search, meaning you can use everyday language to find exactly what you’re looking for on your Chrome browsing history without knowing an exact keyword or web address.

So even if you don’t know the name of the website, if you remember something about it, like what type of website it was or what it contained, Chrome’s AI can figure it out for you. It’s pretty interesting because I used it to find a healthcare article on regenerative medicine that I forgot to save, and all I had to do was ask, “What was the article I looked at that talked about tissue engineering?”

How to enable AI-powered browser history search

This feature is disabled by default. To activate it, click the three-dot menu next to your profile photo in Chrome and navigate to “Settings:”

Next, navigate to “Experimental AI” and the arrow next to “Historical search, powered by AI:”

Activate it using the toggle bar:

The feature is now enabled. Simply go to your history and type something like What was that clothing store you were looking at two weeks ago? and Chrome will show you relevant pages from your browsing history. Google states that this feature will also never include any browsing data from incognito mode. You can turn it on and off in Chrome settings as mentioned above.

You must be in the US and using English Chrome for this feature to be available, as it is still in experimental mode.

Simply put, these two new AI features in Chrome are game-changers. Real-time protection keeps you safe while you browse, and searching your history just got a whole lot easier. What’s not to love?