Select searches will list a outcome from an app with a “stream” label subsequent to it.

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Google’s most current mobile experiment lets you use an Android app without installing it. Google has launched a beta version of Android app streaming inside of Google search. Just search for one thing that gets a hit inside of a Google-indexed app, and you’ll be offered the choice to “stream” the app proper to your phone.

Even though most larger tech businesses have apps and internet sites, for smaller sized firms, the app is sometimes the only entry point for shoppers. Streaming an app makes it possible for new consumers to use the service with no obtaining to go via the hassle of downloading and installing the app.

Streamable apps show up in the Google Search results with a “Stream” label subsequent to them. Tapping the link loads the app about as rapidly as a webpage, and a bar at the bottom flags the app as “App streamed by Google (beta).” For now, Google says the function is accessible to a “tiny group of partners, such as HotelTonight, Chimani, Day-to-day Horoscope, or New York MTA Subway Map.”