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Visual search on Windows 11 is increasingly integrated into native tools like the Snipping Tool, which now offers Bing-powered visual search for OCR, translation, product lookup, and math solving directly from screenshots. This feature provides a Google Lens–style experience on desktop, allowing users to identify objects, extract text, and search without leaving the capture workflow. Additionally, the Bing Wallpaper app includes visual search hotspots, and Microsoft's Click To Do overlay can analyze images on screen. These developments reflect a broader trend of making visual search more conversational and actionable, with AI enhancements like Gemini offering context-aware analysis on mobile devices.
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    Gemini vs Google Lens: How Visual Search Becomes a Conversational AI Experience

    Google’s Gemini app has begun to make Google Lens feel less like the future of visual search and more like a fast, useful specialist, because Gemini can analyze images, videos, and shared screens conversationally on modern Android phones and tablets. That is the uncomfortable lesson inside a...
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    Windows 11 Snipping Tool: A Multitool for Capture, OCR, Color, and AI Search

    Windows 11’s Snipping Tool has quietly evolved from a one‑trick screenshot utility into a compact visual toolkit that can record video, extract editable text, pick exact colors, run image searches, and even hand off clips to Clipchamp — all without leaving the capture workflow. What used to be a...
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    Windows 11 Snipping Tool: From Capture to Cloud AI Studio

    The Snipping Tool in Windows 11 has quietly grown into a compact visual productivity suite—far more than the one‑trick screenshot app it used to be—now offering video trimming and GIF export, built‑in OCR, a color picker, Bing visual search, and direct Copilot image assistance that turn a...
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    Windows 11 Snipping Tool: A Native All‑In‑One Visual Toolkit

    Windows 11’s Snipping Tool has quietly graduated from a basic screenshot utility to a surprisingly capable visual toolkit — and once you know what’s hiding behind the camera icon, it can shave minutes off common tasks, replace a handful of third‑party utilities, and change how you capture, edit...
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    Windows 11 Snipping Tool with Bing Visual Search: OCR Translation and More

    The Snipping Tool in Windows 11 now does more than take screenshots — it can run a Bing‑powered visual search directly from a capture, giving desktop users a Google Lens–style experience for OCR, translation, product lookup, math solving and more, all from the familiar Win + Shift + S capture...
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    Bing Wallpaper App: Privacy, Defaults, and How to Disable Extras

    Microsoft’s Bing Wallpaper app has quietly grown from a simple “daily background” utility into a small, clickable portal that can — by default — open a Bing search in your browser when you click the desktop, and it wires extra visual-search and news hotspots into the wallpaper experience that...
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    Windows 11 Snipping Tool Gets Visual Search with Bing for OCR Translate and more

    Microsoft has quietly folded a Google Lens–style capability into the Windows 11 Snipping Tool, letting you take a screenshot and immediately run a visual search in Bing to identify objects, extract or translate text, and even solve math problems — all from the familiar capture workflow...
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    Click To Do: Windows' Local-First AI Overlay with Phi Silica

    Microsoft’s Click To Do is the kind of small change that can quietly rearrange how you work: a system-level overlay that turns whatever is on your screen—text, images, even tables—into actionable items you can edit, summarize, or hand off to Copilot, all without leaving the context of your...
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    Windows 11 Insider: AI Hits Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool for Everyday Tasks

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider flight quietly folds generative and assistive AI into three of the operating system’s oldest — and most widely used — utilities: Notepad, Paint and the Snipping Tool. The changes are modest on the surface but signal a broader, deliberate push to make AI part...
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    Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Gain AI Features in Windows Insider Builds

    Microsoft’s long‑running habit of quietly modernizing its smallest apps reached a clear milestone this week as Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad received coordinated feature updates in Windows Insider builds — features that push these familiar utilities from convenience tools toward real...
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    Windows 11 Inbox Apps Get On-Device AI: Paint, Snipping Tool, Notepad Updates

    Microsoft has begun rolling out a coordinated set of updates to three of Windows 11’s long‑standing inbox apps — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — delivering practical workflow improvements for creators and a notable expansion of on‑device AI that’s gated to Copilot+ hardware for now...
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    Google's Spotlight-style Windows search with Lens and AI Mode

    Google’s experiment quietly drops a compact, Spotlight‑style search bar onto the Windows desktop — summonable with Alt + Space — that unifies local files, installed apps, Google Drive and the web, and layers in Google Lens and an optional AI Mode for conversational, multimodal answers...
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    AI Upgrades in Windows 11 Inbox Apps: Paint, Snipping Tool, Notepad

    Microsoft has quietly begun shipping a coordinated set of updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest built‑in utilities — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — turning small, familiar tools into more capable, workflow‑friendly apps and proving once again that Microsoft is using inbox apps as a...
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    Windows 11 SCOOBE: Full-Screen Renewal Prompt in Insider Builds

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...
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    Windows 11 Insider: Paint, Snipping Tool & Notepad Get On-Device AI

    Microsoft is quietly turning three of Windows 11’s oldest, most familiar utilities — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — into more capable, workflow-focused apps by adding an editable project format, in-capture markup, and on-device AI features for Copilot+ hardware, with the changes rolling out...
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    Windows Snipping Tool Quick Markup, Paint Brush Opacity, Notepad AI Copilot+

    Microsoft is bringing a major workflow improvement to the Snipping Tool: a new “Quick markup” mode that lets you annotate screenshots before they're captured, plus simultaneous updates to Paint and Notepad that push these long-neglected utilities toward more advanced, productivity-focused use...
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    Windows 11 Inbox Apps Get Local AI: Notepad, Paint, Snipping Tool Upgrade

    Microsoft is quietly rolling out another round of practical — and strategically significant — updates to three of Windows 11’s oldest built‑in utilities: Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool. Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels can already try a mix of incremental UX improvements and larger...
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    Windows Insider: Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad gain on-device AI and new workflows

    Microsoft's latest Insider flight quietly turns three of Windows 11’s most familiar utilities—Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad—into more capable, workflow‑focused apps by adding editable project files, in‑capture markup, and local AI editing that can run on Copilot+ hardware without a...
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    Windows 11 Insider Update: Paint gets .paint, Snipping Tool quick markup, Notepad AI

    Microsoft has started pushing a fresh wave of updates to three of Windows 11’s most familiar built‑in apps — Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad — to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, and the changes are both practical and strategic: Paint gains a proper editable project format and...
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    Google Windows Labs: Unified Desktop Search with AI, Lens, and Local+Drive results

    Google has quietly moved search closer to the Windows desktop with a new experimental app that surfaces web results, Google Drive documents, installed applications, and files on your PC from a single floating search bar — all summonable with a simple Alt + Space shortcut. Background The new...
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