Google lens

[idraw]

This google lens thingamajig might be very useful, haven’t tried it outdoors yet. It seems like from what I read, that you can use it outdoors to identify plants, bugs, various animals…you get the concept…

https://lens.google/howlensworks/

[KeegansCreation]

I will totally use that. My current method of identifying dog breeds and flower species for proper tagging is by googling "dog" or "flower" and then hunting through the images until something looks similar. This looks faster and more accurate.

[KeegansCreation]

And I'm back. And flabbergasted. 

Due to my frequent travels in Ogunquit, Maine I have many pictures of Perkins Cove. I uploaded a rather generic looking picture I took of this cove. It's beachy, coastal, it has sold as such, and as far as I thought it could be a cove anywhere in the world. All that it showed was the water (lovely) and waves crashing upon the rocks. 

Google Lens identified it exactly and also identified the restaurant that I was facing away from so that it would not mar the picture.  I suppose Goggle pulled this from promotional photos the restaurant uses to advertise itself but still. I was impressed.

Farther along the rocks in that cove there is a walkway with lovely roses growing right up to the edge of the rocks. I have photographed these and tagged and titled them Beach Rose for want of a better term. Google Lens told me that they are colloquially known as beach roses. Well alright.

Thanks for the hot tip. This is super useful.

I tried it on a building from the 60's that my Dad photographed but that one it couldn't do because it was apparently not a famous building and has probably since been torn down so Google had nothing to compare it to.

Final experiment: my house. It didn't identify it (which is good!) but it did pull up a bunch of ads for home repair services.

[idraw · Accepted solution]

One step beyond ( tv show) queue the music…
the 60s building,if you have the address, long shot, but you might rouse google into giving up some ahem old information, and maybe even some other related pics and info. Will be interested in what you find.

[KeegansCreation]

Got it! OMG this is fun. Below is the photo. My Dad included no label beyond "Pacific Northwest 1964".  So I popped Pacific Northwest into the search bar and re-ran the Google Lens search. This time it found it right away. It's the Pacific Science Center in Seattle and it's still there, looking just the same.