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At Google I/O, Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan announced new enhancements for its Lens Multisearch tool, which lets you conduct a search with just an image and a couple of words. A new mode, called “near me,” will let users take a photo of an object and then find results locally.
As Raghavan explained, you’ll be able to take a photo of a dish and then search for restaurants that serve that specific food. Google will then display a list of relevant restaurants near you. To make this feature happen, Google scans photos from across the web, and then matches them to the one you uploaded. “Near me” will be available in English to start, and will expand to more languages “over time.”
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