E-commerce professionals and CX leaders should follow certain visual search strategies to improve online product visibility and customer engagement. By Laurence Hart, CGI Federal Published: 12 Jan 2026 While visual search has been around for a long time, it remained a niche offering until recently. For example, Google Lens, an AI-powered visual search tool launched in 2017, logged 12 billion visual searches per month in 2023. Two years later, that figure jumped to more than 25 billion.