#google-lens

#google-lens

A few months ago, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles Unified noticed something different about his students' tests. Students who had struggled all semester were suddenly getting A's. He suspected some were cheating, but he couldn't figure out how. Until a student showed him the latest version of Google Lens. "I couldn't believe it," said teacher Dustin Stevenson. "It's hard enough to teach in the age of AI, and now we have to navigate this?"

Search continues to ship 🚀 Built on Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro is available in Search, starting with AI Mode, on day 1 for Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers in the U.S. https://t.co/OrkyHrNMzS- Robby Stein (@rmstein) November 20, 2025 AI Mode query ⬆️ Create a detailed infographic for college students on trophic levels and energy transfer in ecosystems. The infographic should feature an ecological pyramid (energy or biomass), with definitions of producers, primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers, and...- Nick Fox (@thefox) November 20, 2025

Google had recently made the visual search tool easier to use on the company's Chrome browser. When users click on an icon hidden in the tool bar, a moveable bubble pops up. Wherever the bubble is placed, a sidebar appears with an artificial intelligence answer, description, explanation or interpretation of whatever is inside the bubble. For students, it provides an easy way to cheat on digital tests without typing in a prompt, or even leaving the page. All they have to do is click.

"Now, we're bringing Nano Banana to Google Search and NotebookLM (and soon to Photos), helping more people access these advanced capabilities in products where they're already exploring, learning and creating with visuals."

Text ads on the search results page will now be grouped with a single 'Sponsored results' label. This new, larger label stays visible as people scroll, making it clear which results are sponsored, upholding our industry-leading standards for ad label prominence. We're also adding a new 'Hide sponsored results' control that allows you to collapse text ads with a single click if you want to focus only on organic results.

If you're like me, you probably head to Google's search engine on the web several times a day to get information on specific topics. But if you're working in Windows, that means you have to stop what you're doing, fire up your browser, go to Google's search site, and then enter your query. Wouldn't it be quicker and easier if you could do all of that without launching your browser? Well, now you can.

We all have our junk drawers. Typically, there's one in the kitchen that holds many tiny pieces of appliances, covers, caps, and accessories. There's often one in the bedroom, which tends to collect the detritus of a decade's pocket debris. Sometimes, there's a drawer or a shelf in the workshop that also serves as a collection location. These are our catch-alls. They're the designated places to drop stuff with no designation.

Google Lens is a versatile tool for identification, translation, and interaction with digital content, available on both smartphones and the Chrome desktop browser.

Google Lens is like a magic wand for your Android, bridging the physical world and the digital universe, enhancing your productivity and exploration.