Google Goggles”
is an application which was developed by the Google .Inc for Android
based smart phones. At first, it was only available for the Android OS,
but now Google has also developed Google Goggle for both iPhone and
blackberry devices as well.
Google Goggles enables the web
searching experience of the end users much more interesting by letting them
search the web with an image taken from
their handheld devices. It can identify various texts, land marks, books, contact information,
artworks labels and logos. It uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology
to read texts and even allows them to be translated into another language.
This application
is available for free in the Android market. And it can operate on any
android device which has Android 1.6 or higher and an iPhone which has iOS 4 or
higher.
Google Image search
Google image search is very similar to the Google
Goggles application. This allows PC users to search the web using a
picture. At first, this was only available for Google Chrome. But
recently Google has announced this feature for Mozilla Firefox as well. There
are several ways to do this, copy and paste the image URL, upload from
desktop or drag and drop from you desktop (which is the easiest) etc.
- By Tharindu D. Mahavithana -
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