Photo Credit: Airbnb introduced a "play" category in 2022. Shown is an outdoor bowling alley at an Airbnb in Yucca Valley, California in 2022. Airbnb Category search lost its utility for Airbnb when ...

Google has mostly shied away from making its own native desktop apps — even going so far as to require users to continue loading up a web browser to use tools like ...

Say what? Yes, Airbnb is testing adding a "What" box to the search interface atop its homepage. If it works, then over the next few years it may transform the way people look for a place to stay.

Google has so many products that it can be near-impossible to keep track. And yet, the company has rarely created desktop apps to go with those services. There are a handful, like Drive and Quick ...