Google Lens has a brilliant new feature that lets you search the web with a video

Google Lens is a terrific way to search the web, especially in the AI era. You can use your phone's camera to capture content around you and then search the web for related information. Google Lens also supports multisearch, so you can use text and images to search the web for more details about something you just saw in the real world or online.

However, a photo might not always be enough, so Google decided to take things to the next level. At I/O 2024, Google demoed a search-with-video feature that lets you upload videos to Google Lens so you can search the web based on their content. That's something not even ChatGPT can do right now.

Then again, you should not confuse the new Google Lens feature with Google's Project Astra. The latter was also demoed at I/O 2024, and it represents a big upgrade for Gemini. Project Astra will let Gemini "see" through your phone's camera so it can respond in real time based on your surroundings.

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