Google Lens makes its way to google․com homepage: Here’s how you can use it

Google Lens has been the company’s one of multiple services that rely on artificial intelligence (AI). It is an image recognition technology that helps users in identifying relevant information related to objects in photos. Google has placed Lens across apps as well as platforms and now, it is coming to Google homepage.
Rajan Patel, vice president of Engineering at Google and who leads the Search experience, Image Search as well as Lens, tweeted about the change on the Google homepage. “Now you can ask visual questions easily from your desktop,” the executive tweeted.

The Google Lens button appears in the Search bar in the same way as it is on the Searchbox on smartphones.
How to use Google Lens on homepage

It is to be noted that the relevant items may include links of wallpapers, random photos and even online shopping stores.

There is a “Text” option which identifies the text written in the image. You can either select a part or all the text and then copy, listen, translate or search it on the Internet. This option comes in handy when you are reading an article online and want to copy some text in your personal notes for future reference.
There is also a standalone “Translate” option that can quickly help you translate any supported text into another language.
What is Google Lens
Google Lens is a technology that uses neural network-based visual analysis to bring up relevant information such as text translation and do other stuff like identify plants and animal species.
It was announced in 2017 at the company’s annual developer’s conference, Google I/O, and has been expanded to various apps such as Google Photos, Google Assistant, Google app on iOS and Google Chrome on mobile. Lens made its debut on the web last year with Google Photos and Chrome.