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

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 ...

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 ...

Google Lens makes search more convenient by allowing users to use photos instead of text queries. New improvements like Multisearch and Multisearch near me enhance the user experience with Lens.

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story described a directional functionality as a Lens feature, but it is not part of that suite of products from Google. NEW YORK ― Central ...