{"id":584734,"date":"2026-04-15T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584734\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:18:14","slug":"googles-new-windows-app-is-yet-another-way-to-access-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584734\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new Windows app is yet another way to access Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Google has <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/search.google\/google-app\/desktop\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:introduced;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;introduced&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">introduced<\/a> a new app for Windows desktops and, unsurprisingly, it puts AI front at center. If you aren&#8217;t a big fan of Google&#8217;s Gemini chatbot, then skip on past this download. For those of you who are heavy Gemini users, though, this could mean a simpler and more integrated experience on Windows machines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Once installed, you can pull up the app&#8217;s search bar with the Alt + Space shortcut. Queries typed into this open-ended search box can hunt down information from the web like typical Google search, where AI Mode will be enabled for an extra layer of artificial intelligence for follow-up questions or a deeper dive down a rabbit hole. But the app isn&#8217;t limited to web search. It can delve into your computer&#8217;s files, other installed apps or Google Drive files to retrieve information. Screen sharing is also built into the app, which enables using Google Lens to conduct AI-powered searches on content displayed on your monitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The app is rolling out globally today in English. Interestingly, this hasn&#8217;t been gated to the most recent <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/windows-11-review-microsoft-mindful-os-200028040-200028741.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:Windows 11;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Windows 11&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 11<\/a>, but it does require a machine running at least Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has introduced a new app for Windows desktops and, unsurprisingly, it puts AI front at center. If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[168,68406,4432,4178,74,255979,255980],"class_list":{"0":"post-584734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-google-drive","10":"tag-google-lens","11":"tag-google-search","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-windows-desktops","14":"tag-windows-machines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}