Google Lens in desktop Chrome is getting an AI-powered upgrade that could make it feel like a desktop version of Circle to Search. As part of a Chrome update, Google will let you click a new button right in the search box to activate Google Lens so you can select things that you want to search for. Then, thanks to a sidebar that pops up right within the tab you’re looking at, you’ll be able to do a “multisearch,” or a search containing both text and the image that you found with Lens.
The feature could prove to be a more useful way to search, especially since you won’t have to navigate away from the page you’re looking at by doing a separate Google search or opening a new tab.
(Note that you’ve already been able to activate Google Lens…
