Google Goggles
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With Google Goggles you can perform web searches by taking a picture rather than typing in text. It can be used to search based on the pictures of logos, text, barcodes, street signs, landmarks, and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
Discontinued
In August 2018 Goggles app stopped working: Google now redirects users to 
Google Lens app or, for incompatible phone, to 
Google Photos which includes Lens' features.
Features
- Reverse Image Search
Tags
- Search Engine
- image-based
- image-analysis
- search-by-sight
Google Goggles News & Activities
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What is Google Goggles?
With Google Goggles you can perform web searches by taking a picture rather than typing in text. It can be used to search based on the pictures of logos, text, barcodes, street signs, landmarks, and more.
Google Goggles information
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Google Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
14 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Arabic
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Chinese
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Comments and Reviews
I often find it doesn't actually work. I suspect the idea is somewhat ahead of the technology
Google Goggles doesn't support the iPod Touch 4, even though it has a camera. Lame.
Goggles search-by-sight tool could soon work through Google's Chrome browser, too "I am working on a 20 percent project to facilitate the input of Web image searching," Google programmer Xiuduan Fang said in a post in Dec.2009 to the Chrome Extensions mailing list titled "Chrome extension for Web Goggles. The 20 percent figure refers to a Google program that permits engineers to devote a fifth of their time to projects of their own choosing. Read more: (1) http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10412216-264.html (2) http://bit.ly/9BaFXx