Recently supported by artificial intelligence Android We’ve seen the ‘search by circling’ feature for smartphones, which allows you to search the web for a specific part of an image or text. Microsoft also has a similar feature co-pilot He started developing it for . The tech giant is now focusing on another feature that works with the same logic.

This time, instead of circling the word you want to search for, by scratching it out We can call. This feature, which does not yet have an official name and was shared by user Leopeva64 on X, is still in the early stages of development.

New alternatives to search from Microsoft

On the other hand, the scribble search feature is not the first circle-like feature developed by Microsoft. Last month for Copilot search by circling We’ve seen his ability to do this tested. When you want to use the feature, you can select the section you want to search using the transparent filter that appears on the screen.

Besides all these, there is another visual search tool developed by Microsoft via screenshot There was a phone call. This feature allows you to search for the image or text in that area when you select an area by pressing and holding the right button on the screenshot uploaded to Copilot.

Technology giants continue to work to make users’ searches smoother and more fluid. Search engines are very important for companies’ revenues. Worked together in the past Microsoft and Google, It seems that they have also joined forces in this search function.