The internet search giant has a new tool that aims to make our lives easier: it’s an enhancement to Google Lens that can search for anything with a photo or short description.

Today, Google is launching a US-exclusive beta version of the Google Lens multi-search feature, which it announced last September at its Search On event (and which isn’t the ability to copy and paste from within the app).

And while only a rough demo has been seen so far, you won’t have to wait long to try it out for yourself because is being implemented in the Google app for iOS and Android.

Although it is oriented, above all, to purchases, its managers suggest that it could do much more than that. That’s how it works.

“Imagine you have something broken in front of you, you don’t have the words to describe it, but you want to fix it… you can just write ‘how to fix‘”, says Lou Wang, the company’s search director, to the American media The Verge.

It seems the intention is to put everyone on a level playing field, too: instead of partnering with specific stores or even limiting video results to Google-owned YouTube, Wang says that results will appear from any platform that can be indexed from the web.

But it won’t work with everything (just like your voice assistant doesn’t work with everything) because there are infinite possible requests and Google is still fine-tuning its search engine.

Should the system pay more attention to the image or your text search if they seem to contradict each other? good questionto. For now, we have to play with what we put on the screen, otherwise it can be a bit of a mess, they explain.

Google hopes AI models can power a new era of searchand there are big open questions about whether the context can get her there.

This experiment is in its early stages, not even using its latest Google MUM AI models. But it seems like an interesting tool that could become fascinating. if it became a core feature of Google Search.