Source: DroidNews
by Robert N. Lee on
December 18, 2009
Google’s on a roll this week, adding massive new features to Google Analytics, a pile of new Labs features to Maps for mobile devices, announcing that they’re moving one step closer to Star Trek translator devices in the next year, and this two-fer: launching real-time web search along with an Android visual search app, Google Goggles. “Visual search” means pretty much what you’d think it means: you take pictures of stuff with your camera and Google searches for matches.
You may be somewhat familiar with the concept from SnapTell/Amazon apps, but Google Goggles isn’t about taking pictures of products and getting shopping results. I mean, it is, but that’s not even close to all of what’s it about. No, Google Goggles is an app that, eventually, intends to search Google for just about everything, using your phone’s camera.
Does it work all the time? No, of course not. But it’s pretty freaking good, and it’s only been out for a day. C’mon. It’s search. It’s Google.
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So right off the bat, I can’t do anything but run Google Goggles through the same pieces of art I subjected PlinkArt to the other day.
Google Goggles Test 1: Kandinsky
Google Goggles missed it, only…not really. The books it found have the painting on their covers…
Source: DroidNews
