By Salman SH & Nikhil Pahwa Google India has announced some key improvements including better data-saving features, offline capabilities, improved download manager, and integration of machine learning into Google Chrome browser for better content discovery. These features are largely aimed at India users and will be rolled out for mobile users on Android only for now; it was announced by Chrome’s Vice President Rahul Roy Chowdhury during the company’s ‘Google For India’ event held today. Google Chrome currently claims to have 1 billion monthly active users on mobile alone, while Chowdury said that Chrome brand’s mission was to improve its web platform offering—Google Chrome browser. Under the same brand, Google also has its own operating system ‘Chrome OS’. Lowdown of updated Chrome browser features Data saving features: To help users save data costs, Chrome had earlier launched ‘data saver’ on both mobile devices and on PCs. The feature compressed only images and text and claimed to save 60% of data. Starting today, the data saver feature will be able to compress and deliver videos, while Chowdhury claims that this will save up to 67% of data when a user plays a video. While doing all this compression, the company claims that “the page will still look like the uncompressed version”. It added that the number of users switching on data saver in India has tripled in the last year alone. Chrome users in India (on mobile and PC) save 337 TB of data every single week, Chowdhury claimed. “Chrome will…
