Google Goggles, A Visual Search of the World
Google unveiled some significant changes that they’ve made to their search services yesterday at their huge demo. But the biggest trick that they pulled out of their sleeve (which I found rather revolutionary), was the uncovering of Google Lab’s Google Goggles, a search to the world using images.
Gadgetell explains that it basically is a mobile app, where you can snap pictures of anything on your device and Google Goggles will analyze the picture taken and bring up any information on your image. So let us say you take a picture of a book, your mobile device would scan the picture and return Google search links that include information of the author, or places you can go to purchase this book. As with everything else, there are limitations, Google Goggles labs would not be able to help with pictures of animals, furniture and apparel. (It also only currently available for Android.)
A short video from Google that might help :
And a demonstration to give you an even better idea :
I say kudos to Google, as they never stop at innovation, with this continuous integration with mobile usage and their services. We already know there is an increasing prevalence in Internet mobile usage as mobile data traffic continues to surge in October , at the fastest pace in past seven months. Apple’s iPhone has changed our perception of utilizing the Internet on our mobiles. Since its concpetion in 2007, the melee of mobile vendors scrambling to rival the mobile Web experience has been countless, but Google Android is already threateningly close to superseding the iPhone. If Google continues to pull out these newfangled technological tricks, it’ll just be a matter of time before they dominate the mobile market.







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