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
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(👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉
Search on my screen stopped working reliably for me a while ago, and it didn’t work in apps that are blocking screenshots/sharing
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