There is no doubting the fact that Google is the top dog when it comes to internet search. The tech giant has ruled the roost for over 20 years and two decades worth of constant evolution and improvement is likely what sits behind that continued success. Today we bring you news of more upcoming changes to Google’s search offering that have been announced at the company’s Search On event.
The main announcements to come from the event regarding search relate to making the search experience more natural and intuitive. The three main ways Google is implementing this mission is to improve visual searching of images, improved visual translations, and a more immersive view of locations you are searching for on Google Maps.
For a while now Google lens and Google Image search have been able to offer users an image search feature that allows them to scan and image and search for related content. Google is updating this image search offering, however, to combine both image searching and text searching in a single search query. Say, for example, you want to search for a shirt that has a particular design or style, you could search for an image of the design you’d like to see on the shirt and then include the search term shirt to see if anybody has uploaded or is selling shirts with that design.
Google is also rolling out an interesting visual translation update, which will make it easier for you to read translation Google makes when you show it an image of an item that has text you want translating. The feature will use AI to block out the old text, automatically trying to cover it with the same color present in the background and then writing the translated text over the top of it. The result should look something similar to what the original image looked like but with the translated text instead of the original text.
The Google Maps update will see the app able to offer you 3D representations of the neighborhoods your are planning to visit complete with virtual representations of the different times of day you may be thinking of heading down there. Also, the feature will also be able to offer views from inside certain locations like restaurants. This update will roll out across five major cities and seek to include aerial views of 250 locations in the coming months.
In other recent Google Maps News, did you know that you can now better plan your routes to be more eco-friendly?
