Google Chat is borrowing this handy shortcut from YouTube

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TL;DR

• Google Chat is adding the ability to preview new messages by moving your pointer over the contact’s name.
• Messages won’t be marked as read until you actually click through, ensuring you don’t miss anything important.
• Previews are starting to arrive now, and should be available everywhere next month.

How much time have you spent scrolling around YouTube in your browser, looking for that next clip to watch, without actually clicking anything? Thanks to mouse-over previews, we can keep that up for quite a while, seamlessly jumping from thumbnail to thumbnail, getting a taste for what they offer. When you want a quick sense of what a whole lot of videos are about, there’s probably no better way to do it. And now a very similar tool is coming to… Google Chat?

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