Google Goggles Lets You Search by Sight
At first, Google Goggles sounded like some kind of official Google headgear you could wear over your eyes. Unfortunately, that's not the case. In fact, Google Goggles is a new form of search that allows web surfers to search by uploading pictures. As the website states, you no longer have to type in words: just take a picture. The catch, it seems, is that this new offering is geared towards the mobile device with a built-in camera and Android 1.6 (or above).
As an example, Google depicts an image of a mobile device taking a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. If the user has no clue as to what they're looking at, the picture is uploaded to Google Goggles, and the database identifies the object and offers suggestions. Take a picture of a book cover, upload it to Google Goggles, and receive all kinds of relevant info.
"It's ideal for things that aren't easy to describe in words," the website reports. "Google Goggles works better with certain types of queries. Try taking pictures of books & DVDs, landmarks, logos, contact info, artwork, businesses, products, barcodes, or text. Currently, it's not so good when taking pictures of animals, plants, cars, furniture, or apparel."
Right now Google Goggles is available for Android smartphones. Hopefully this application will find its way into Google's web-based applications for other smartphone owners to utilize.
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A new reason I'm going to switch to a DROID.
I'm not sure how much practical use this will get, but I imagine it will provide plenty of fun.
yes! a german or norwegian and a indian soudning guy! foreigners are always the ones who bring the best technologies. i wish i hada job at google...i'd fit riiight in
brb gonna take a picture of my nutsac
I saw this on a CNBC program about google. Trouble is it seemed quite buggy at the time. Not sure how long ago the program was made though.
This is AWESOME!!!
I want it.
Spiffy. But I bet the GPS store thing is going to be buggy or inaccurate, and visual search is a new technology. I'm curious to see how many landmarks it will actually recognize--as far as I know, visual search engines are very limited by what they have to compare to. If you find some crazy new camera angle, it might not know what you're looking at. Lots of possibilities here.
Holy crap this is amazing !!!!!!! God i love the technology aspect of this world !!
Wait for Microsoft to create something similar like, Bing 3-D Search 2010 for Office.
google, another step closer to ruling ze world...
Wonder how much they are investing in to this? With all the maps and photos and video already on their site, it must cost alot to store images?
I see a use for Intel's new 48 core chip...
also a step towards facial recognition surely.. Well, the FBI don't want to work on it any more.. 1984?!
1984 was government-centric. The real world 'big brother' is corporate/personal doing the spying.
hmm...search by sight
y don't we just go back to textbooks eh?
I don't quite understand the connection...
Soooo... if I take a picture of my computer, can it tell me whether I can play Crysis???
I can't concentrate on the video. I just keep paying attention to that guy's awesome accent. Cool product though.
So, you're saying I can now type goggles into google using goggle with a picture of goggles... sounds AWESOME!
It's awesome, now build it on a pair of sunshades to identify nearby high power-level entity like uh... Gohan.
*uploads photo of nuclear waste*
"The goggles do nothing!"
p.s. This reminds me a lot of the system used in the anime `Eden of the East`. Users could upload a photo to the community, which would then identify the photo.
Now if also worked with bar codes. (I know some store let you use a scanner)I could go to the grocery store or any store scan the barcode have it connected to a preset budget and keep track of my spending and even have it suggest a lower price for the item at another store. User reviews for the item and so on.
Hmmm makes sense, don't know the name of that female porn star in your favorite video. Just google goggles a pic of her doing the nasty cuz goggle watches way too much porn for 1 man to remember a simple name.