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Dec 29, 2025

What happened to Google Lens?

Anyone else notice that Google Lens is really bad in the last few weeks? I had been using it both in Google photos and for Internet visual searches. It was actually pretty good for quite a few months.

 But something has happened in the last two or three weeks and it can no longer find the most basic things and / or complete a visual match search successfully. 


I could give you dozens of examples, but I will use my most recent experience as an example for this post. I was looking for a photo of a wolf in my personal Google photos collection. I have actually searched successfully for a wolf photo in the past, but today it can't find my wolve photos. Furthermore, the only result it is giving me is a photo of a husky! I have dozens of photos of huskies too (they are one of my favourite dogs), but randomly it is only picking up one particular husky photo. 


Moreover, a couple of the photos of wolves I had written a caption "wolf" in the information section of the photo. So Lens is currently not even able to find text. Overall, it is really hindering my work, but I am particularly disappointed that I can't find photos that I went to great trouble to label. Especially as I pay for Google photo storage. It is unexplainable and very frustrating. Another of Google's long list of products that is defective and disappointing. 

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BigfamJapan

BigfamJapan

Former nickname was "Saitama". Changed it to save confusion on place review posts! Irish, 20+ years in Japan! I also write on my personal website: insaitama.com


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