Google announced it is expanding AI Overviews to show on more Google Lens results, including more novel or unique images. This is still only showing on a subset of searches, but now more than when Google first added AI Overviews to Google Lens in May of 2024.
Plus, Google is also adding to its Chrome app and Google app for iOS a new Lens feature that lets you select and search whatever’s on your screen with just a simple gesture.
AI Overviews and Lens. Google wrote, “now, with help from our advanced AI models, Lens can go much further and provide information on the contents of more novel or unique images. For those kinds of queries, AI Overviews will begin to appear more often in your Lens results, with no need to add a question to your visual search.”
Here is what this looks like – in the example, you see some weird texture on your car and you want Google to tell you about what this might be. Google’s AI Overview says this looks like a carbon vinyl wrap for paint protection.
Lens on Chrome and Google App on iOS. Now when you are on a screen in Chrome or on the Google app, you can ask Google Lens what you are looking at. You can do this by drawing, highlighting or tapping on the screen to get more details.