Google’s first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone. Last Monday, Google announced the ability to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph.
The experimental search-by-sight feature, called Google Goggles, lets users take a photo using a mobile device (for now, an Android phone) and Google’s visual search will capture the image and return information, as if a user had typed in relevant search terms.
Google has a database of billions of images which can be matched with what users take, said Vic Gundotra, Google’s Vice President of engineering. Google Goggles can recognise books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos and more.
This technology is being enabled by its early research in the field of computer vision where photos can be used as a search query. This new service was one of several announced by Google last week.
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Snap photo and ask Google for info with Google Goggles
The experimental search-by-sight feature, called Google Goggles, lets users take a photo using a mobile device (for now, an Android phone) and Google’s visual search will capture the image and return information, as if a user had typed in relevant search terms.
Google has a database of billions of images which can be matched with what users take, said Vic Gundotra, Google’s Vice President of engineering. Google Goggles can recognise books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos and more.
This technology is being enabled by its early research in the field of computer vision where photos can be used as a search query. This new service was one of several announced by Google last week.
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