Google Chrome on Desktop Adds Google Lens Support; Here’s How to Use It

Jul. 22, 2021

Google Chrome on mobile has had the ability to search images using Google Lens for a while now. And now, the company isbringing this feature to the Google Chrome desktopbrowser. With this change, you can use Google Lens to look up images right from the Chrome browser on your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC.

As9to5Googlereports, Google is rolling out a newLens integrationwith Chrome 92. However, I was not able to access it on Chrome 92. Instead, the feature was available on Chrome Canary on my end. This hints that the feature is seeing a gradual rollout.

If you have the feature, you will see a new“Search image with Google Lens”option instead of the usual “Search Google for image” option. While the former relies on Google Lens, the latter utilizes Google Images forreverse image search. To learn how to use it, follow the steps below:

1. To access Google Lens on Chrome desktop, right-click on any image and choose the “Search image with Google Lens” option.

2. You will now be taken to the Google Lens search results. Here, you can also perform Google Lens searches with different images by using the “Upload” button. This button is present at the top right corner of the search results page.

If you are not satisfied with the search results, Google Lens has an option to look up the image on Google Images. All you have to do is click on the “Try it” button at the bottom right corner of the page.

Google Lens integration on Chrome should prove helpful to users who are usually happy with Google Lens results on mobile. We will have to wait to see if this feature will remain exclusive to Chrome or eventually be available on all Chromium browsers.

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.