Article 65BYR Google’s putting its Lens image search right on its home page

Google’s putting its Lens image search right on its home page

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Mitchell Clark
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Screenshot_2022_11_01_at_16.46.25.0.png Google Lens is now built into its search bar.

Google has been integrating its Lens image recognition tech into several of its products for quite a while now, including Google Photos and Chrome, but now it's putting it front and center. As 9to5Google points out, Google's added a Lens button right to its home page, in its famous search bar. That's a big deal, according to Rajan Patel, a vice president of engineering at Google who's in charge of Search and Lens - as he said on Tuesday, the Google homepage doesn't change often.

Clicking on the Lens button (a little camera in Google-y colors) prompts you to upload an image or paste a URL to one. Once you do so, you'll be taken to a page that's pretty familiar if you've ever used the Lens app or any of its other integrations.

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