Google Lens Lets You Search The Internet Through Your Camera

During Google’s I/O keynote the company announced a new product called Google Lens that allows you to search the internet in a entire new way, through your camera. You’ll take a picture and Google figures out what’s in it. If you take a photo of a restaurant, Lens can do more than just say “it’s a restaurant,” which you know, or “it’s called Subway,” which you also know. It can automatically find you the hours, or give up the menu. If you take a picture of a flower, rather than getting unneeded confirmation of its flower-ness, you’ll learn that it’s an Elatior Begonia, and that it really needs indirect, bright light to survive. It’s a full-fledged search engine, starting with your camera instead of a text box. The first home for Lens will be Google Photos, so it can go back through your existing library and find all sorts of new data. It’s also coming to Google Assistant, which is where you’ll primarily interact with new photos and searches. Over time, it’ll come to all Google products. Thoughts ? Google really ceases to amaze me.