2010年3月27日星期六

Tech blog 7: Visual Search




If you're out walking around and see something new and interesting — but kind of hard to figure out — what will you do? Ask passersby or you can ask “Google”.
Google Goggles is a visual search application. This new technology allows users to take a picture of anything, and Google will return search results and information based on that image.

Robot eyes in your phone
The visual search will allow people to search for more information about a famous landmark or work of art simply by taking a photo of that object. Send it to the internet from your phone, the photo will be analyzed and link to the information that might explain that new thing you're staring at. Although right now, the service is only available for Android phones however we can recognized that quite a lot website have launch the visual search service like Bing.



Integrated with codes
Goggles aim to search everything, although right now it is not good at food or pets or cars. However, it will soon integrate augmented reality powers. Considering QR codes , it will provided a broaden area for visual search to communicate with commercial field.



Picture, Audio, What else?
We come into a new age of Full-range search. No matter what you can provide, there are some services that can do search for you. We have words, pictures, audio and what else?


Killer application
Full-range search tool

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