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Google Lens Turns Your Camera Into a Search Box

Google is remaking itself as an AI company, a virtual assistant company, a classroom-tools company, a VR company, and a gadget maker, but it's still primarily a search company. And today at Google I/O, its annual gathering of developers, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new product called Google Lens that amounts to an entirely new way of searching the internet: through your camera. Sounds like those were both precursors to Lens---and now, rather than a standalone app, it's available across Google products. The company's gotten very good at computer vision over the last couple of years, and once it's solved the "what's in the photo" part of the equation, well, it's Google.

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