Google wants to let Lens be your helpful shopping buddy by giving it Chrome search integration.
Google announced at its Search On event on Wednesday that it’s bringing the smartphone functionality of its Google Lens to the desktop version of Chrome. Lens is an app that helps identify objects, and it’s installed by default in many Android phones. At some point in “the coming months,” Chrome will receive an update to incorporate Lens-style searching into Chrome. Instead of the old highlight, then right-click, then “search Google for” three-step process, you can search a webpage directly with Lens. In addition to cutting out a couple of the typical steps, this also lets you search Google directly for highlighted content, such as photos or drawings. If you’ve ever tried to finesse the arcane results that you sometimes get from “ search Google for image ” on desktop, the new Lens functionality could theoretically do that job faster and more accurately.
