Google Releases Google Goggles Visual Search App for Android
Google Releases Google Goggles Visual Search App for Android
Posted 12/07/2009 at 3:57pm
| by Jason Barry
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Google has been developing an interesting application using a cell phone’s pictures as a data source for content searches. The "Google Goggles" application available to Android phone owners uses user photos to generate search results about their subjects.
For instance, Goggles has been setup to recognize landmarks, books, contact information, artwork, places, wine, and logos. If you were to take a picture of your favorite book, or popular landmark, the application will automatically launch a Google search with the photo’s subject as the query.
It may seem silly in some circumstances, but there are great applications for this type of search. Imagine being able to take a picture of leaf or tree and getting more information about the plant. The same can be said of animal and food searches. Descriptive text queries will soon be a thing of the past.
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