A New Feature: Search by Video

Google has introduced a new to ask questions about video using Google Lens. And Apart from making video searchable, Google has also released other updates. It says it has improved its shopping results, which will now incorporate reviews and pricing information from different sellers.

If your dishwasher has stopped working and the lights are flashing. It’s a huge ask to specify the following details as keywords into a typical Google search to troubleshoot the problem. After all, you’d have to identify the dishwasher model, describe which buttons are flashing, what color are the blinking lights, what duration are they blinking for, is there any sound accompanying the blinking lights, etc.

Now, Google has made the process infinitely easier. It has released a new feature which will allow people to search the internet by taking a video and then overlaying it with a question that you simply speak into the phone (in the above example, take a video of the lights blinking on the dishwasher and speak a question aloud into the phone – ‘Why is the dishwasher not working?’ – and the AI will kick in to identify the dishwasher, and troubleshoot the problem for you).

Google is also introducing a competitor to the music-identifying app Shazam, which is owned by Apple. it is accessible through Circle to Search on an Android device, it will identify songs from a website a user is on or a show they’re streaming without leaving the app.