Not anymore. Google is now dropping Lens into Google Photos, which gives many more Android users a chance to play with this useful visual-recognition technology.

Everything you need to know about the Google Lens app, including what it can do and how to use it.

Chrome and Google app users on iPhone can now draw, highlight or tap on text and images to carry out a visual search of what they see in front of them.

Google Lens now works in more than 10 native Android cameras, bringing it one step closer to dominating visual search.

Glass, Google’s futuristic, wearable tech initiative, has received constant attention since its debut, but the product is still shrouded in mystery. A majority of us have never laid hand on ...

Using Google Lens to photograph a broken bit of your bicycle and typing "how to fix" can now result in not only webpage results with tutorials, but specific moments in video clips.

Lens affirms a consistency of focus for Google. Here is augmented reality at work doing exactly what people know Google can do, which is retrieve information from the web.

Google is adding its Lens image search right into its home page, letting users access the tool directly from the search box.

Some tweaks to Google Lens now aim to simplify how visual search works. The UI you initially launch into is unchanged and remains inspired by Google Camera.

Google Lens is gaining a new feature that allows users to upload photos of skin, hair and nail conditions for relevant search results.

If you're sitting in a coffee shop and you spot a neat mural on the wall, you could soon use your smartphone to identify the local artist who was behind it. A new feature of Google Lens currently ...