Google will start logging the media you feed into Search.
The company announced a "Search Services History" toggle that saves images you look up with Lens, recordings from the real‑time Search Live feature, voice queries and spoken phrases in Translate. The data is stored alongside standard search history and can be turned off by disabling the "Save Media" option in the settings page.
The move gives Google more raw material to train its AI models, especially multimodal systems that combine text, image and audio. For users, the primary impact is a potential privacy trade‑off: opting in could improve future features, opting out preserves the status quo.
As the search giant widens its data net, the option to opt out remains the only safeguard for privacy‑concerned users.