Soon, you'll see a new ‘Lens’ icon on Chrome browsers and Chromebooks that lets you do a quick search by any text or images on a webpage.
The new Lens feature on Chrome browsers works very similarly to Circle to Search. All you need to do is hit a button on the browser, then click and drag over anything you want to search., so much so that it’s bringing that quick-access Google Lens-like capability to Chrome. It’s currently in beta, but soon enough,
you’ll be able to drag across your screen to do a photo or text search of anything that appears on your browser.spotted the new capability in some of the latest beta builds. Soon, ChromeOS and Chrome browsers will include a very prominent Lens icon just to the right of the browser bar. When you click that, you’ll get a popup describing how to “Search anything on this page with Google Lens.”
Twitter user Leopeva64 showed off how this feature would work back in May. The Lens UI shades the page blue, similar to Circle to Search. From there, you click to drag around the content you want to search. Chrome will then open up a separate search function on the right side of the page to display your search results. From there, you can refine the search by typing it into the search box on that side panel.
The new Lens UI in Chrome now has an animation that is similar to what you see when you activate Android's "Circle to Search" :It will also be the easiest way to get Circle to Search on Linux or a Mac. It’s also far easier than getting similar features on iOS without theusers to enable screenshots in digital assistant app permissions. Still, the word “screenshot” next to a big tech company immediately brings back memories of the SNAFU that was Windows 11 Recall on Copilot+.
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