Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’

When people look up vacation destinations, for example, they will see what Google calls “visual forward” search results — organized tiles of photographs presented much like Stories on Snapchat or Instagram, along with a map and images from travel sites that link to guides.

The internet today is a more cluttered place than it once was [...]

Time to re-evaluate if the $ask from Kagi is still too much...

> Users will be able to search Google using images and text simultaneously, pointing their cameras at an armchair or a shirt, for example, and refining their queries with text. “Your camera is your next keyboard,”

The article then shows somebody submitting a picture of a patterned shirt, typing in "tie" and getting results of ties with similar patterns.

This seems legitimately cool, and it's good to see Google pushing their Lens search further.

Non paywall link: https://archive.ph/wEWiG