What?

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  1. Select any text on ANY web page. [WHAT button shall appear]

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  2. Clicking on the button, this screen shall appear while processing the request

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  3. Upon processing, the explanation and critical questions are generated.

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  4. Even the question can be questioned again using same process.

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  5. There is also a search action link next to each question

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  6. Same leads to a Google Search page where you can further follow same process of questioning, thinking and information discovery.

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  7. Analyzing the text selected from Google Search results

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  8. Explanation and Questions generated on fly.

Inspiration

Often people read and take the information presented on web as is, due to many reasons one of which is - running out of questions or lack of critical thinking habits. This Chrome extension helps users question any text information on the web and generate relevant questions to further discover information from the web on fly without typing long questions.

What it does

Provides an action button after selecting a text on any webpage. Once a user clicks on same, the text along with SYSTEM PROMPT is passed to Gemini Nano model using PROMPT API to create the explanation and critical questions for user to help the information discovery, critical thinking and learning journeys. The results are shown as a custom user experience made specifically for consuming this kind of information a better way - Dark mode + main keywords highlighted.

How I built it

I made this simple chrome extension in a single content.js with help of the PROMPT API. To ensure secure results are exchanged - I have used DOMPurify with this.

Challenges we ran into

Nothing as such, the overall experience was pretty straight forward.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I use this extension myself for questioning and evaluating any piece of information that I feel needs a bit more critical thinking & research. Also helps me from typing; I can further search the question directly on the web/google search using the Search action available with the question UI.

What we learned

The Google in-built Chrome PROMPT API can help make web and knowledge more accessible to all. Even a non-scientist can think like a scientist now with this extension.

What's next for What?

This extension can be further taken into various dimensions beyond generating questions like: Grabbing hashtags quickly, understanding the emotions of a piece of text, or even creating Google Nano Banana images on fly using piece of selected text, etc. - just to name as a few use cases.

Built With

• chrome