Google Lens Is Now Able To ID Items In Image Search Results

Karamchand Rameshwar - Nov 01, 2018


Google Lens Is Now Able To ID Items In Image Search Results

Google Lens is now featured in image searching as well, allowing users to search for details about objects they want in images.

Google - the tech giant is about to celebrate its 20th birthday of its Google Search, and it is still trying to make changes to the way users find information. Google search are getting more and more visual. And now Google improves its Google Lens to offer users more ways to search.

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You can easily copy text using your camera with Google Lens

Google Lens already allows users to copy texts using their phone cameras and also many other things like identifying animals and plants, getting detailed information about a building or monument and also scanning barcodes. Google is now bringing ID skills of this feature to search.

If you want to learn more about any object in images, simply go to the image search on your mobile device and tap on the Lens button. It will then place dots over the object in the image you want to search. You can pull up more details by drawing a circle around that object as well. The feature works pretty much the same as Google Assistant’s Lens feature, but it will, of course, help you to buy things also.

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It is very easy to search for objects in an image with Google Lens

Google Images’ Product Manager, Assaf Broitman, said in a blog post of Google that you can use the feature, for example, to search for ideas on how to decorate your living room. When you come across some couches you like in random images, you can draw a circle around the couch or taps the Lens button. After that, Google Images will show you information relating to the couch and also suggest some places that you can come and buy a similar one.  

Google Lens For Image Search

Lens feature for Google Images is now only available for users of mobile web searching in English in the US. It will probably soon to be released in other languages, countries and also Google Images locations.

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