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Google to Make Search and Maps More ‘Immersive’

• sizzle 4y ago
  Non paywall link: https://archive.ph/wEWiG https://archive.ph/wEWiG
• zppln 4y ago
  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...
• swethmandava 4y ago
• woojoo666 4y ago
  > 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.