Chrome will soon do Google Lens image searches without leaving a page

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The new panel will appear to the right after a Lens search. | Image: Google

Google Lens, the search giant’s powerful image recognition software, is becoming slightly less cumbersome to use within the Chrome browser on desktop. Currently, if you want to use Lens on an image on a website, the browser opens a page of results in a new tab. But in the future, the browser will instead show results in a panel to the right of a webpage. Only when you want to find an image’s source will Chrome open a new browser tab.

The search giant’s image recognition software has long been available on mobile, where it’s accessible via Google’s apps on iOS or the native camera app on some Android phones. But last year, Google Lens came to desktop via the Chrome browser and can be accessed by right-clicking an image and then selecting...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/24/23139304/google-chrome-lens-image-search-desktop-sidebar-panel

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