I've never seen it mentioned anywhere so I will just here complain that Google also removed the ability to paste images into Google Image search some years ago for no apparent reason. It worked great and I used it all the time.

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mh- an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Click the little camera icon in the search box and it pops a modal that says Search any image with Google Lens.

The textbox below it says Paste image link, but you can actually paste an image from your clipboard here, too.

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qingcharles 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And if it doesn't work on the Google home page, just go to images.google.com and do the same, it always works there for some reason.

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lelandfe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You’re a hero. So glad I complained. Why would they not just keep this working with the main text box focused…

	▲	_flux an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In similar fashion in the Android Play Store they moved the search off from the top bar. For some time they educated users that "oo the search is no longer here, you need to click there -> to get to the page with search!". That has stopped (for me?), but they still haven't found any other use for same place in the first view. I suppose it was too convenient.
	▲	mh- an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No idea. I used it a lot too, not sure if pasting here worked from the beginning of them introducing this Google Lens thing or not.

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dannyw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder if it’s a deliberate anti-user decision to get more URLs and less pasted images.

URLs expand Googlebot’s indexes; pasted images don’t.

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bossyTeacher an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I might be missing something but Google Image Search still works for me.

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RugnirViking 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this + image translate with copy+paste is the only reason I ever use yandex of all places...