My main gripe with Google Lens is that it replaced Google Image Search on their browser. Used to be able to drag/drop an image into Google and it’d do an instant search for all similar/identical images. Now it opens Google Lens and it just gives me a bunch of “related links” instead of a proper image search.
To get the old functionality back, I need to use a “Google image search” add-on in my Firefox browser. It opens the old Google image search page.
I mostly use it to find higher resolution versions of old, grainy images, but Google Lens took that functionality away from me.
I go to images.google.com for text searching images, but if you drag an image into the search bar there, it opens Google Lens now. That’s my complaint. I want it to search for other versions of the image like it used to, not open Lens.
My main gripe with Google Lens is that it replaced Google Image Search on their browser. Used to be able to drag/drop an image into Google and it’d do an instant search for all similar/identical images. Now it opens Google Lens and it just gives me a bunch of “related links” instead of a proper image search.
To get the old functionality back, I need to use a “Google image search” add-on in my Firefox browser. It opens the old Google image search page.
I mostly use it to find higher resolution versions of old, grainy images, but Google Lens took that functionality away from me.
Tineye usually produces better results
You don’t need an extension to do that. I can use image search just fine with images.google.com.
I go to images.google.com for text searching images, but if you drag an image into the search bar there, it opens Google Lens now. That’s my complaint. I want it to search for other versions of the image like it used to, not open Lens.
I have the option to view image source.