Google Goggles: Google’s Scary Good Visual Search App

I ’m surprise this has n’t come out sooner : Google Goggles is a visual hunting app for Android phones that scans products , books , movies , business cards , bar codes , artworks — a ton of stuff . It ’s like Google automaton eyes in your phone .

While it ’s not pixel perfect in its sagacity , what ’s telling is its depth — unlike apps like ShopSavvy or SnapTell , Goggles aims to research everything , even if it admittedly is n’t great at IDing intellectual nourishment or pets or car . Yet . Plus , it ’s catch integrated augmented reality powers , so it ’ll show you nearby commercial enterprise without you having to extend to anything .

ConsideringGoogle ’s rollout of QR codesto a bunch of places , clearly , they ’re planning to slosh big with ocular search before some upstarts get the testicle rolling — I figure it ’s only a ( short ) matter of metre before we see it on other smartphones besides Android 1.6 . [ Google ]