Disco

Disco is an experimental Google Labs tool for turning open browser tabs into custom, interactive apps. Its first web discovery feature, GenTabs, uses the tabs you already have open and a goal you provide to organize information into a more focused experience.

What it does

Disco creates GenTabs from your current browser tabs and a specific objective. Google describes examples including exploring the solar system, planning a trip, creating a meal plan, and planning a garden. The resulting GenTab is intended to make the information in your browsing session more interactive and useful for that particular task.

Disco also includes an AI-enabled pointer for working directly with webpages. You can select content to get quick, specific answers without leaving the page, continue the conversation in a side panel, and move from short pointer interactions to more detailed answers. Google says the pointer can also navigate pages by scrolling to relevant sections, highlighting information, and opening new relevant tabs.

Notable capabilities

• Creates custom GenTabs from open browser tabs and a stated goal.
• Organizes browsing material into an interactive app-like workspace.
• Answers questions about selected webpage content without requiring a separate page.
• Continues pointer conversations in a side panel for more detailed responses.
• Collects useful information from browsing and lets you add it to a GenTab.

Who it helps

Disco is aimed at people who research, compare, organize, or plan across multiple webpages. It may fit trip planning, personal projects, food planning, learning, and other tasks where useful information is distributed across open tabs. The examples published by Google suggest a broad, goal-based approach rather than a tool limited to one subject area.

How it fits a workflow

A typical workflow starts with several relevant tabs already open. You provide the outcome you want, and Disco generates a GenTab based on those tabs and that goal. As you continue browsing, the AI-enabled pointer can help locate relevant parts of pages, answer targeted questions, open related tabs, and add selected information to the GenTab. This makes the tool most relevant when the work begins with an existing research session rather than a single isolated webpage.

Strengths and limits

Disco’s stated strength is combining browsing, page-level assistance, and task-specific organization in one workflow. It can adapt the generated workspace to different goals, and the pointer is designed to reduce context switching while researching.

The product is presented as an experimental Google Labs feature, and the official page currently invites users to join a waitlist. The available information does not specify supported browsers, export options, account requirements, pricing, or how GenTabs behave with different types of webpages. Those details should be confirmed before relying on Disco for an established research or planning process.