You can search anything you find with Google Lens in Chrome. For example, you can select an image of a shirt on a page to know where to buy it or take a photo of an animal to identify it.
Search with Google Lens
Important: Set Google as your default search engine .
To search on a page with Google Lens:
- On your computer, open Chrome.
- Go to a website.
- At the top right, select More
Search with Google Lens.
- You can also right-click on a page and select Search with Google Lens
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- You can also right-click on a page and select Search with Google Lens
- With Google Lens, you can:
- Ask questions about the content of the page you’re on:At the top right of the screen, in the search box or on the side panel, enter your question. The answers to your question are provided by Google Lens based on the content of the page.
- Select anything to search:On a webpage, click, highlight text, or select and drag anywhere on the page.
- To ask a follow-up question, enter it in the "Ask a follow up" bar near the bottom of the side panel. This leads you to AI Mode. Learn how to get AI-powered responses with AI mode in Google Search .
- You may find AI Overviews in your Google Search results. Learn about AI Overviews .
- To close the side panel, you can:
- Select anywhere in the live page area.
- Press Esc.
- In the side panel, select Close
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Tips:
- Search results display in the side panel. To open a result in a new tab, select the search result.
- In the toolbar, you can pin "Search with Google Lens." Learn how to pin and unpin a specific side panel .
Additional ways to search with Google Lens
From the address bar- On your computer, open Chrome.
- Go to a website.
- Select the address bar
Tip:Ask Googlecan appear by default in the address bar on certain pages.
- Right-click the image.
- Select Search with Google Lens.
- Or, right-click anywhere outside an image. From the menu, you can select Search with Google Lens.
How your page data is processed by Google Lens
To use Google Lens for the first time, you’ll need to agree to the processing of page data.
- To help select objects on the page, a screenshot of the page and page data will be sent to Google. When you use Lens to search webpage content in Chrome, Google doesn't save any data beyond temporary storage for processing the specific query. Neither the page nor image is used for training as a result of this.
- When you select part of the page, the selection is sent to Google Search. To manage or delete your Search activity, go to My Google Activity .
Related resources
- Search the web in Chrome
- Manage Chrome side panel
- Set default search engine and site search shortcuts
