Google Lens is one of the company’s most useful and impressive tools: With it, you can scan objects in the world around you to learn more about anything from plants to pets, as well as lift text right ...

Smartphone users often encounter unfamiliar items. While you can search using a typed description, this approach doesn't work ...

Multimodal search is nothing new for Google Lens. The company introduced it back in 2022: Since then, you've been able to search images and text using Lens—for example, looking up a photo of a ...

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Google is introducing two small but meaningful enhancements to its Lens technology. To start, Chrome and Google app users on iPhone can now draw, highlight or tap on text and images to carry out a ...