Google turning phone camera into a search tool

Google’s newest tool means that when you are in a new location you can get recommendations on where to eat, drink, or shop just by taking a photo with your phone’s camera.

Google Lens, which uses image-recognition technology, was revealed this week by the internet firm’s CEO Sundar Pichai.

“Google Lens is a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you’re looking at and help you take action based on that information,” said Mr Pichai.