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It’s basically Google Lens for Windows users.
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Published onMay 13, 2024
published onMay 13, 2024
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Microsoft has quietly updated the Snipping Tool with several features over the last few Insider Builds. Some of these featureswere released last weekand included automatic QR code detection, a new keyboard shortcut for the ruler tool, as well as the ability to modify the opacity of outline colors with a new slider.
However,the version 11.2404.37.0brought up some unlisted enhancements, as well. According to tech enthusiast,@PhantomOfEarth, the Snipping tool will soon have a Visual Search with Bing capability.
Another feature coming soon to Snipping Tool (yes, more!): visual search with Bing.pic.twitter.com/h6HOblr0Rq
The feature is not rolling out yet, according to the enthusiast, but it should be available to all insiders within the next weeks.
If that is so, it could be a total game-changer for Bing, as a search engine. Let us explain. Snipping Tool is a very intuitive tool used to screenshot and record your current screen on Windows. With a simple shortcut, the tool can be used to take these screenshots in seconds, and they’re also automatically copied to the clipboard.
With the new capability, users can essentially visual search with Bing for everything they screenshot. For example, you can screenshot a mobile phone in a YouTube video, right-click on the screenshot image, and within seconds, you can use Visual Search with Bing to look up that mobile phone.
The capability is very similar to Google Images, or Google Lens. If Lens lets you take a picture of anything, or use existing screenshots on your mobile phone to look for essentially anything, Visual Search with Bing will do a similar job in the Snipping Tool on Windows.
It’s basically Google Lens for Windows users. It could also help Bing become more dominant in the search engine market, which Google currently dominates.
As we mentioned earlier, this new enhancement should be out in a couple of weeks, and generally available to Windows users, later this year.
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Flavius Floare
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
