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Chrome gets a Search sidebar to banish the back button
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The latest of the Google Chrome browser features a new Sidebar that enables users to recall the search results page, rather than hitting the back button.
The “open search in side panel” button within the URL bar will make it easy to compare search results without leaving the open tab.
Users will be able to click each of the results and they will load within the main portion of the page, while the side panel remains visible. In ablog post, Google explains how the feature works:
Previously, users have had to go back and forth between search results pages and the sites themselves, or open the preferred result in a new tab in order to preserve the original results. This makes things much easier.
The feature began testing earlier this year, but is now rolling out within the latest version of the Google Chrome browser. Elsewhere, Google is now bringing its price tracking tool to desktop versions of the browser, following its launch for mobile devices (viaThe Verge). Google says:
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