Google Lens allows searching by video clips
Google has started rolling out its video search feature via Google Lens to users around the world.
Users of the company's search tool on Android reported the availability of the new feature, which Google first announced during its I/O 2024 developer conference earlier this year.
This feature allows users to ask questions about things around them after recording a short video to use for searching.
“Search is about much more than just words in a text box,” Google explained in announcing the feature. “People often ask questions about things they see around them, including things in motion. Thanks to advances in video understanding, we can take visual search to a whole new level—you can now ask questions using video.”
It is worth noting that searching using video saves a lot of time and effort in trying to describe the problem or scene in words, and the search results displayed themselves will be supported by artificial intelligence.
You can open the Google Lens tool on Android phones, long-press the shutter button to record a video and ask a question, and the video search feature will respond with an answer generated by artificial intelligence if the “AI Overviews” feature is enabled in the user’s country.
Google had previously stated that the video search feature would first be available to English-speaking users in the United States, before expanding to other regions around the world.
