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Google Lens’ new logo is a nod to its previous designs

Google Lens is getting a new logo that combines elements from its previous designs.

The technology that’s allowed users to ‘search what they see’ has had a few different sketches act as its logo in the past, with the earliest being a rounded-off circle and, more recently, a camera-shaped icon. Now, as told on Twitter by the Google News Telegram group moderator @Nail_Sadykov, another logo that blends the two designs will take over.

The icon also brings back the green circle in the bottom corner of the logo, which was featured in both the 2019 logo and the original.

It appears the new, modernized logo was first seen in Chrome Canary v114, a software that’s historically acted as a testing ground for the company’s visual updates. Despite the new logo not showing up in places like the Pixel Launcher, the Lens listing on the Play Store, and Chrome’s new tab pages, it is visible with ‘v14.17.16’ of Google Search on Android.

The new logo will look to keep enough familiarity to be easily recognizable but provides enough of a change to be aesthetically noticeable.

Source: @Nail_Sadykov Via: Android Police

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Google developing Lens feature to decode doctors’ handwriting

Doctors are well known for scribbling hasty prescriptions that are near indecipherable for the average person. However, Google’s working on a solution that could allow Google Lens to detect the medicines listed in a prescription.

Google showed off the feature at its annual conference in India on December 19th (via TechCrunch), saying that it was working with pharmacists to decipher the handwriting of doctors. Once the feature rolls out to Google Lens, users will be able to either take a picture of a doctor’s note or upload one from their photo library. After processing the image, the app will detect and highlight medicines mentioned in the note.

However, Google hasn’t shared details about when the feature will launch, saying only that “much work still remains to be done before this system is ready for the real world.”

Moreover, Google Lens already offers some features for transcribing written notes. However, as noted by The Verge, how well the feature works depends on how legible the handwriting is. Given doctors’ notoriously illegible handwriting, it’ll be interesting to see how well the Lens feature will work, if at all.

Source: TechCrunch, The Verge

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New Google Lens feature brings ‘Find Image Source’ to Android

Google is adding a new feature to Lens on Android that allows users to be redirected to Google Image Search on the web, with the image and related queries auto-populated.

First reported by 9to5Google, some users are now seeing a new ‘circular globe with a magnifying glass’ button on the bottom right of their Google Lens-analyzed images. Clicking on the globe button, reportedly called ‘Find Image Source,’ redirects users to Google Image Search, with relevant search queries for the image already populated.

For example, if you run an image of the new Apple Watch Ultra in Lens, and click on the globe button, the app will redirect you to Search on the web, with search results for Apple Watch Ultra image auto-populated, as seen in the screenshots below:

The addition is likely because users prefer Google’s Search results due to Lens being a hit-and-miss. Chrome on the web already offers the same reverse image search feature. You right-click on an image you find online and click on ‘Search image with Google Lens.’ Now, the functionality is being extended to the mobile app.

The ‘Find Image Source’ button isn’t live for all Google Lens Android users yet, but it should completely roll out over the coming weeks. We’re uncertain if the feature is coming to iOS.

Image credit: 9to5Google

Source: 9to5Google