Google search getting eyes and ears
0 Comments | AFP, December, 2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AFP) Google search is getting eyes and ears, moving beyond typed key words to let people scour the Internet with mobile telephone cameras or spoken words in multiple languages.
Google on Monday unveiled “Goggles” software that lets people search online using pictures taken with cameras in mobile phones based on its Android operating system.
“When you take a mobile phone camera and connect it to the Internet, it becomes an eye,” Google mobile search vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said while demonstrating Goggles in Mountain View, California.
“Google Goggles lets you take a picture of an item and use the picture as the query.”
An experimental version of Goggles will be available for people at Google Labs website. Goggles…
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