Take Pictures With Google Goggles

February 17, 2010

Keywords: Google, Google Goggles, Android, Visual Search

Take a photo of that bridge in front of you, then pull all the information about that bridge from the internet. Or, take a picture of the street you are walking on and learn what’s around you. That’s the goal of Google Goggles, an innovative visual search technology introduced by Google for android phones, which lets you pull relevant information from the web by just clicking a snap of any object wherever you are.  It automatically does image recognition and presents relevant information. Now, you can take a picture of a business card and pull that person’s profile from the internet on your mobile.  Look at reviews of a book by just taking a picture of the book. Open the book and capture the text of a page by taking a picture of it and using OCR. We don’t expect it to be perfect, and it’s not really semantic, but it’s a start to recognizing the world around us and bringing in relevant information. Read more about Google Goggles at limcorp.net and google.com.