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I've been using it for a while now on my Pixel and I gotta say it's actually really useful, you can copy text from anywhere, even apps that normally won't let you (both intentionally blocked and unintentionally) copy/select text

And the easy "translate what's on my screen" functionality has been really good on Lemmy when I come across the random German memes lmao

The actual search function also comes in handy when I want to reverse search an image from an app, but the app won't let me save it. It's nice to skip a step or 2.

That being said, since it's actually good I now expect it to be nerfed and/or abandoned in about 6 months

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[โ€“] maniel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

isn't it just a new way to access screen based search? i mean, i can do things you tak about by launching google assistant (non-gemini) and choosing "search on my screen", i use it daily to translate difficult japanese in my dulingo, select text and search on my non-pixel/samsung phone, it' there since few years AFAIK, i don't think it's going anywhere, because reverse image search is the future, also you're training their neural networks that way(๐Ÿ‘‰๏พŸใƒฎ๏พŸ)๐Ÿ‘‰

[โ€“] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Search on my screen stopped working reliably for me a while ago, and it didn't work in apps that are blocking screenshots/sharing

[โ€“] Flaim@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

for the most part it's just a finer, more intuitive interface to that exact function, imo. seems like mostly just marketting, for what's been there the whole time