Google Search Adds the Handiest Little Shortcut to Its Widget Kellen | usagoldmines.com

As you’ll see below, if you choose to add one of these new shortcuts, they will appear in the Google Search widget next to the voice and Lens icons. To access this, you would add the Search widget to a home screen, long-press on it, and then hit either a Settings shortcut or a little edit button depending on your device. Once there, the new Shortcuts section should be seen. If not and you are on the current versions of the Google App I mentioned above, do a force stop on the app in settings and it should show.

So, you decide to add a shortcut, you’ll find options of “None” if you want no change, but you can go further by adding a shortcut to Song Search or Weather or Sports or Finance, etc. The list may not be exhaustive and will mostly just launch a search query for those items in Google Search. However, how handy is that if you don’t want a weather shortcut or need to find a song quickly or want to pull up the stocks or sports teams you follow without much effort?