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Circle to Search update lets Google look beyond your screen content

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google has rebranded Circle to Search’s “Search using your whole screen” feature to “Ask about screen” in the latest Google app beta (v17.18.24). The feature now automatically sends URLs, page content, and PDF data to Google to provide more contextually relevant AI-generated results. This functionality is currently rolling out to beta users and is expected to hit the stable branch in the coming w…
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Read the original note in the following link: Circle to Search is updated: now you can read full URLs and PDFs for more accurate searches Google is making Circle to Search significantly smarter than it was so far. And it is that the beta v17.18.24 version of the Google app brings a key update to this function: the old button called "Search with the whole screen" has been renamed "Ask about screen" (or "Ask about the screen"), and with that name …

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Android Authority broke the news on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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