Search On, Google’s annual event held to announce new features and developments in Search , took place Wednesday, revealing how machine learning advancements are helping people to gather and explore information in new ways. Here’s a closer look at some of the announcements: 1. Multisearch is expanding: Each month, people use Lens to answer more than 8 billion questions, using their camera or an image, and earlier this year, Google introduced multisearch —a major milestone in how people search for information. With multisearch, you can take a picture or use a screenshot and then add text to it — similar to the way you might naturally point at something and ask a question about it. Multisearch is available in English globally, and will now be rolling out in 70 languages in the next few months. 2. Multisearch near me “Multisearch near me”which was previewed during Google I/O earlier this year supercharges multisearch capability, allowing you to take a screens...