Find the part of a long video that answers your question
Long videos without chapters make you watch everything to find the two minutes you need.
What the agent did
Faith Leroux, a writer at Android Police, watches a lot of long tech videos and doesn't always have time for all of them. With a YouTube video open in Chrome, she used Ask Gemini to find the timestamp where the creator talked about the specific thing she needed, such as which phones a screen glitch affected. She also asked whether a video's price claims came from real sources or rumors. She found the timestamps reliable, but noticed Gemini sometimes answered with information from outside the video, and that it struggled with niche terms the captions got wrong.
What the owner still checks
Gemini reads the captions, not the picture, so it can miss on-screen text and mangle unusual words. It may also mix in outside information, so check the sources it lists. Gemini in Chrome can read your open tabs; the author suggests turning it off around banking or private pages.
Gemini can read your open tabs and Google files when you allow it. Turn that off around banking or private pages, and open the source before you trust an answer.
Try this job
Starter prompt written by Agents 101. This was written for this guide. It is not a quote from the original post. Change the names, amounts, and accounts so they match you before you send it.
Using only what is said in this video, tell me the timestamp where the speaker talks about [topic]. Summarize that part in three sentences. If the video does not cover it, say so instead of guessing, and tell me if any part of your answer comes from outside the video.
Source
androidpolice.com (opens in a new tab), dated .
Added to Agents 101 on . Any dollar amounts are what the original person said. We did not check them.