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Secret settings and best extensions CHROME Disable the ‘Search with Google Lens’ feature Google has now integrated its AI-powered tool Google Lens with Chrome. This lets you search for information about content on a web page – including text, images and videos – without typing anything. Instead you use Google Lens to capture a screenshot of selected content, and it displays ‘visual matches’ from across the web in the browser’s sidebar. It’s potentially useful but Google’s implementation of the feature seems heavy-handed. A ‘Search with Google Lens’ option now appears in Chrome’s address bar, its main (three-dot) menu, the right-click menu and even in the ‘Find on page’ box (1 in our screenshot below) that opens when you press the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut. You’ll probably find all this annoying if…

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