At the MWC 2023 in Barcelona, Huawei unveiled the latest features of its Petal Search mobile search engine, namely the AR search function and On-screen Lens function. These powerful features cater to users’ needs for text, image, and object recognition in a variety of scenarios, such as travel and entertainment. Petal Search boasts deep learning and large-scale machine learning technologies, which enable it to recognize hundreds of thousands of objects from dozens of categories in just centiseconds. Moreover, the search engine supports translation between multiple mainstream languages, making it a valuable tool for international users.

Statistics from Statista show that global paying users of AR-related services have grown at a compound annual rate of 64% between 2020 and 2022. In response, Petal Search has upgraded its AR search capability, allowing users to identify objects in real-time without taking photos. This feature utilizes advanced models based on hundreds of millions of data records and tens of billions of images to deliver accurate results in centiseconds. Users can also translate screen content and save translation results on the go using the On-screen Lens function. Petal Search’s comprehensive search capability integrates tools, content, and services, enabling users to securely download apps, check the weather, translation, and exchange rates, and access trending news, video, images, and academic knowledge.

Petal Search has localized features that cater to users in different countries and regions, including an earthquake information card in Latin America. Additionally, the search engine has partnered with over 3000 ecosystem partners to provide users with one-stop services for shopping, travel, and local life. Currently, Petal Search offers services in over 170 countries and regions, supporting more than 70 languages, and complying with the local GDPR standard. As a key component of Huawei’s “1+8+N” strategy, Petal Search will continue to evolve towards a more convenient and intelligent one-stop search experience.

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Huawei has recently begun public testing for one of its apps that is a part of the HMS (Huawei Mobile Services). It is the Petal Translate official application, which brings translation based functionality to the company’s ecosystem.

For those unaware, the Petal Translator from the Chinese tech giant is an intelligent translation application that was introduced by the company’s Cloud Service Innovation Team. This app was based on the machine translation capabilities of HMS and arrives with numerous features. The features include translation from multiple different languages, intelligent image OCR recognition translation, and even real time translation of dialogues, among other functions.

Now, the public test of the Peta Translate application has brought in a few key features to the open test phase. This includes text translation, which brings support for multilingual text translation based on texts. Furthermore, it also offers picture translation as well, which makes it possible for a device with the app to translate from images. After these translations, one can even create a sharing card and share it on messaging platforms like WeChat and Moments.

Finally, dialogue translation basically adds support for multilingual speech translation. Notaby, we had previously reported on other apps in the Petal series from the brand. This includes its location based Petal Map app and even the Petal Search services as well. In other words, the Petal is essentially a Huawei version of Google Mobile Services like Map or Google Search and even the Translate app.

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Back in May 2020, Huawei officially announced its proprietary search engine called Petal Search. The app was previously simply referred to as Huawei Search in Beta and was developed to replace Google Search within its Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem. Now, the Chinese tech giant has launched the search engine in Singapore.

For those interested, Petal Search is currently available for download in the region through the company’s AppGallery. Huawei has built its own mobile services and related application software after losing Google support back in 2019 since it was placed in the US Entity List. This list includes blacklisted companies, which cannot trade or buy goods and services from American based companies. Thus, the company lost Google’s support and shipped its smartphone with the vanilla Android.

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Over the course of a year, Huawei has since been building up its software ecosystem and expanding its AppGallery and Huawei Mobile Services as a whole. The Huawei Search has now finally appeared as a stable build of Petal Search and is currently available for download. This platform enables easier for users to find applications from third party sources and to download and run them.

At the moment, the complete functions of the new application may not yet be available in all countries right now. Although, Huawei is working on including additional regions soon. Petal Search can be downloaded by those smartphones that run the latest EMUI 10 version (v10.1.0.131). Currently, the app supports 40 languages and is available in 45 countries and regions.

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