Google announced a few new Google Lens options; (1) they’re increasing how AI Overviews present on Google Lens outcomes and (2) Chrome and Google’s iOS app now allow you to search your display with Google Lens.
The AI Overivews now present on Google Lens outcomes extra usually. It’s nonetheless solely a subset of searches however they present on extra novel or distinctive pictures, Google stated. Google informed me they’re increasing AI Overviews to extra Lens search outcomes.
Google Lens can go a lot additional and supply data on the contents of extra novel or distinctive pictures. Simply faucet the digicam icon within the Search bar to snap a photograph with Lens. You’ll get an AI Overview that will help you shortly make sense of what you’re taking a look at, together with hyperlinks to useful assets on the net — without having so as to add a query to your visible search, Google defined.
Here’s what it seems to be like:
Here’s a greater decision static picture of this:
Google Lens now can be constructed into Chrome on iOS and likewise the Google app when you’re viewing a web page. Now you can search the display you’re looking at.
To take action:
- Open the three-dot menu and choose “Search Display with Google Lens” or “Search this Display” respectively. Then, use no matter gesture comes naturally to pick out what you need to search.
- After you choose, you’ll see visible matches and different kinds of useful outcomes.
- You may then faucet “Add to your search” to refine by colour, model or one other element, or you’ll be able to ask observe up inquiries to dive deeper into a subject.
Here’s a GIF of it in motion:
This works on pictures, textual content, and even movies too. Faucet the three dot menu and select the display search possibility. Learn extra: https://t.co/YMUdvsSqKA
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) February 19, 2025
We made this occur by combining Lens’ skill to seek out related pictures on the net with Gemini’s superior, multimodal capabilities.
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) February 19, 2025
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