Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience. Now your phone's camera can even help to find out more about the world around you.
Back in December we introduced Google Goggles on Android: it lets you search by taking pictures. Today, we're excited to announce that Goggles is now a feature of Google Mobile App for iPhone. Google Mobile App already lets you speak your queries, and it can also use your phone's location to give you more relevant search results.
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In the new version of Google Mobile App just tap on the camera button to search using Goggles. Goggles will analyze the image and highlight the objects it recognizes -- just click on them to find out more. You can see how this works in this short video:Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is still a Labs product. It works well for things such as landmarks, logos and the covers of books, DVDs and games. However, it doesn't yet work for some things you might want to try like animals, plants or food.
Google Mobile App with Google Goggles is now available in the Apple App Store. Just search for Google Mobile App' and download the latest version - it's free. It will gradually be appearing in all App Stores around the world starting from today.
Goggles is enabled only for English-speaking users, and since it requires an auto-focusing camera it is supported only on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4 or above. Visit our Help Center to learn more or send us your feedback and questions in our Help Forum.
So step away from your computer, get your Goggles on, and search the world around you.
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The Google Voice App is included in this update of Google Mobile.
The Google Voice will pull up your contact list. That is something that Apple would not allow before. This is new.
After further looking, I agree that it is just the web app. t is pulling up some of my contacts but they are not from my Google contact list in the iPhone.
Well, I can get to my Google contacts in the Google Voice app.
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It is nice that it is interfacing with contacts. It has listed my contacts twice and I am thinking it is getting it from my contacts list from my gmail contacts and not my mobile me contacts in my address book. or maybe it is getting it from both places ... not sure.
Will be interesting to see if the google voice feature will become a standalone feature not using Safari and a direct voip type interface would be nice too.
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Thanks for alerting us to this update to the google mobile app ... I am having fun with the google goggles feature. I am using the camera icon to view vacation photos on my ipad and it is recognizing some of the landmarks fairly well and now I can find out the names of some of the places we saw in various cities that I have forgotten. Like all the cathedrals and such that you see in Europe.
It even thought the stripes in my husband's shirt was a barcode and made an attempt at locating a product. LOL
Overall it is doing a fairly good attempt at this camera or image recognition and is amazing that our technology is coming along so fast.
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