Google Lens now has a special place — on the search engine’s homepage. The addition points to the importance of the image recognition technology in the coming days and years.
“The Google homepage doesn’t change often, but today it did…. Now you can ask visual questions easily from your desktop,” tweeted Rajan Patel, VP, engineering, Google.
Since it was announced at I/O 2017, the visual search tool appeared on Pixel phones and Google Photos before expanding on Android and then the Google app on iOS, as well as mobile Chrome. Last year, it appeared on the desktop web with Google Photos and later Chrome. In August, Google Images on the desktop web switched to Lens and also appeared in the results page Search field. Now it appears in the Search bar of the google.com homepage or a position of pride.
Clicking on the Lens button (a camera icon) prompts you to upload an image or paste a URL. Next, you are taken to a page that’s familiar if you’ve ever used the Lens app or any of its other integrations. Google Images allows you to look for similar-looking pictures (which has been there for quite some time) and with Lens, things move a few steps forward as Google also offers information about what’s in the picture. Scanning a picture will offer shopping results or uploading a picture of a plant or animal will make Google say what it is you are looking at.
A few entries for Doodle for Google 2022
Doodle For Google 2022
Google has unveiled the 20 finalists of its annual Doodle For Google competition, and opened online voting to the public to choose their favourite doodle in each of the five class-wise categories using a publicly available link.
Over 100,000 students from 1,450 schools in 100+ cities across the country participated in the contest submitting entries on the theme of ‘In the next 25 years, my India will…’ The doodle of the National Winner amongst these will be featured on www.google.co.in for 24 hours on November 14.
Online voting for the contest is open until November 7 (till 10am IST).