Google just launched a slew of helpful search features

When you’ve been wanting extra methods that can assist you discover issues, Google has answered your want. In the present day the corporate introduced a wide range of new options coming to Google Maps, Search, Lens, and Procuring.

On the corporate’s official weblog, Google printed a slew of search-related bulletins. Whereas a lot of the options had been initially revealed throughout its Search On 2022 occasion again in September, at the moment’s particulars are saying the launch of those new options. Here’s a round-up of what was introduced.

Discovering meals

Have you ever ever seen a brand new dish and wished you possibly can discover out what it’s and the place you may get it? Google has added a brand new perform to Google Lens known as “multisearch close to me” that can assist you do precisely that. As Product Supervisor, Cindy Huynh, states within the announcement, this function will assist you to both take an image or a screenshot of meals and add the phrases “close to me” to discover a place that sells that meals merchandise.

Huynh explains:

At any time when I come throughout a scrumptious wanting dish, I merely should discover out what it’s — and the place to get it. To assist with this, we created ‘multisearch close to me,’ which is launching at the moment in English within the U.S. Now, I can simply use Lens within the Google app to snap an image or take a screenshot of a dish or an merchandise, add the phrases ‘close to me’ to shortly discover a place that sells it close by. This new approach of looking will assist me discover native companies in my neighborhood, so I can extra simply assist neighborhood outlets in the course of the holidays.

Along with this function, the corporate can also be introducing one other function that can enable customers to sort within the identify of a dish adopted by “close to me” to seek out locations that serve it, the value, and the elements.

3D and AR purchasing

One thing else Google is rolling out at the moment is enhancements to its AR purchasing. In the present day Google launched a function that can enable customers to buy footwear utilizing 3D renders and augmented actuality (AR). This new function is claimed to work equally to how the expertise works with exhibiting customers how furnishings seems to be in an area. In the mean time, the function seems to work for under a handful of manufacturers together with Saucony, Vans, and Merrell.

The corporate additionally revealed that it’s engaged on creating 3D spins of footwear. Nonetheless, the 3D shoe renders received’t be out there till the approaching months.

One other change the Mountain View-based group introduced is that it’s implementing a change that ought to make discovering your actual basis match simpler. The corporate states that its “new picture library options 148 fashions representing a various spectrum of pores and skin tones, ages, genders, face shapes, ethnicities, and pores and skin sorts.”

With this library, Google claims it ought to assist folks “higher visualize what completely different merchandise appear like on you.”

“Right here’s the way it works: Seek for a basis shade on Google throughout a variety of costs and types, like ‘Clinique Even Higher Basis,’” Google defined. “You’ll see what that basis seems to be like on fashions with an analogous pores and skin tone, together with earlier than and after pictures, that can assist you determine which one works greatest for you. When you’ve discovered one you want, simply choose a retailer to purchase.”

Dwell View and EV charging

Shifting on to the Google Maps announcement, it was revealed that Google is introducing a brand new visible search expertise known as Dwell View. In contrast to a lot of the different options introduced at the moment, this function is scheduled to roll out on Google Maps for Android and iOS at first of subsequent week for choose cities. These cities embody London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo.

To clarify the way it works, Google supplied this instance:

Say you’re visiting New York with plans to knock out your vacation purchasing and meet up with buddies. Raise your cellphone and faucet on the digicam icon within the search bar to see close by shops and different locations like espresso outlets, banks and ATMs. Google defined With AR-powered instructions and arrows, you may see what course they’re in and the way distant they’re — and even spot locations that aren’t in your instant view (like a clothes retailer across the block) to get a real sense of the neighborhood at a look.

The opposite function coming to Google Maps is one which needs to be numerous assist to EV homeowners. Based on Google, discovering the very best charging stations can be even simpler than earlier than. Now you may seek for “EV charging stations” and choose the “quick cost” filter to be proven charging stations with 50kW or larger. As well as, the corporate says that customers will have the ability to discover their EV’s plug sort in additional international locations.

The final replace to Google Maps will make its “accessible locations” function out there globally on Android and iOS. The function was initially launched in 2020, however just for Australia, Japan, the UK, and US.

Google Lens Translate

Lastly, Google plans on rolling out a brand new replace to Google Lens that can go dwell someday later this yr. The replace will enhance its AR Translate capabilities so customers can translate textual content on extra complicated backgrounds. Moreover, as a substitute of masking up the unique textual content, the function will now erase the unique textual content and recreate the pixels beneath with an AI-generated background, just like the way in which Magic Eraser works in Google Images.

These bulletins come on the heels of two different options that had been added to Google Search solely a pair weeks in the past.