Google wants its Assistant everywhere.

What started in users' smartphones and tablets, the AI-powered virtual assistant developed by Google then arrived to smart speakers, cars, TVs and even more IoT devices. There are many ways to trigger Assistant, but generally it is by saying "OK, Google."

In an update, Google is going back to the basic, as it introduces Assistant to its Google.com homepage on mobile.

The Assistant Icon sits on the top right, next to the app list and notification bell. When users tap on this icon, it will simply open a drawer at the bottom of the screen where users can ask queries to the Google Assistant on their device.

The move is quite a brilliant one from Google.

With searching for things on the web have gone way beyond the usual and traditional way of typing, Google also wants its Assistant to be present wherever its users are.

In this case, the company also wants the Assistant to be accessible to those users whose devices don't have Assistant.

What this means, Google is opening the roads where it can include its Assistant on older phones and tablets, to Apple's iPhones or other non-Android phones that don't have Assistant installed, on non-GMS-certified devices, and even low-end phones.

All users need to do, is to just open Google.com on their mobile devices, and they're good to go.

The news about this icon has been around since November 2018.

At that time, Google was said to be testing the feature to selected users, but it was unverifiable for the most part.

While users can use this Assistant icon on Google's homepage, Pixel users are the ones who should benefit the most, since Google app's default settings on those devices are all turned on by default.

It makes sense if the Assistant wouldn't be able to do everything the fully-fledged Assistant can, besides answering basic questions, do conversations, check on the weather and so on.

The Assistant icon is present on Google's mobile homepage on any browser and not just Chrome, and accessible even when visitors to the page aren't logged in. In many ways, this can be one of Google's strategy to gather as much information from Assistant users, and also to keep on training its AI to improve it.

But it can also be a privacy issue if Google allows Assistant to profile these non-logged in users as a way to improve its ad targeting method.