The Google Chrome team is experimenting with a new feature that could arrive in the future live build of the browser. A new “Side Search” function has been spotted that appears to be similar to a feature on Microsoft Edge.
Another new feature is coming to the side panel, "Side Search", this could be something similar to the search results that appear in Edge's Bing side panel 🤔:https://t.co/hGhMcUFWNl pic.twitter.com/SnrnJARTvZ
— Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) September 22, 2021
The new feature on Chrome was spotted by Leopeva64 (Via XDADevelopers). It appears to be a Side Search that will display search results inside a small panel without having the user open another new tab. As of right now, Chrome offers a side panel that shows bookmarks and a “Reading List” so it isn’t unlikely that the search engine giant would seek to broaden this panel’s functionality.
Although, Leovpeva64 believes that the feature will not use the current side panel located on the right, rather, the company could implement a Side Search panel on the left side specifically for this feature. Furthermore, three related flags were also spotted on Chromium Gerrit, which includes a Side Search, Side search clear cache when close, and a Side search state per tab functions.
Notably, the new Side Search feature resembles the Microsoft Edge’s sidebar search quite a bit. Functionally, both features are quite similar, while the Edge’s sidebar search offers users to highlight a word or phrase on a webpage and display relevant search results on the side panel as well.
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