The one billion figure comes from products available through Google Shopping, so it likely will not include more obscure items. It has also been fed more data from photos taken by smartphones, so Google says the feature is overall more reliable than before.

By recognizing text, Google Lens thus can put names to the faces of more goods. The expansion comes over a year after the Google Lens’ optical character recognition engine has been trained on reading more product labels. Google Lens launched last year in a preliminary version on Photos and Assistant with only around 250,000 items within its repertoire.

Meanwhile, Google claimed in a recent blog post that its AI-powered camera tool, Google Lens, now has the capability to recognize over a billion items. It will also prompt you to add Chrome Canvas if you access the site from your Android phone. To install the app on your Chromebook, just tap the three-dot button and hit ‘install Canvas’, and it’ll show up as a palette icon on the Chrome OS launcher. You can export your drawing as a PNG file when you have finished, or pull up the same drawing on your phone, and vice versa from your Google account. The app’s features are pretty rudimentary, with a basic toolbar consisting of a color palette, pencil, pen, marker, chalk, and eraser tools. Chrome Canvas first showed up as an app in a recent Chrome OS Dev build, but it is available now on any browser that supports WebAssembly, like Firefox. Type ‘’ into a Chrome browser on any computer, and pull up a basic drawing app without having to download any programs or apps. You can also save the masterpiece to your own computer.

Chrome Canvas, a progressive web app that Google released last week without any fanfare lets you make quick doodles, which you can automatically save to your Google account.

Quick doodles