Google Goggles

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Android
    • iPhone
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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.
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    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.

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    AntonyMalinko
    Comment • about 10 years ago • 0 replies
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    I often find it doesn't actually work. I suspect the idea is somewhat ahead of the technology

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    OmgItsTheSmartGuy
    Comment • almost 11 years ago • 0 replies
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    Google Goggles doesn't support the iPod Touch 4, even though it has a camera. Lame.

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    em4020
    Comment • about 11 years ago • 0 replies
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    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

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    Platform details

    iPhone: iOS 10.0 required, included in the Google Search app.

    Tags

    • Search Engine
    • Reverse Image Search
    • image-based
    • image-analysis
    • search-by-sight

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    Summary

    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Google Goggles, and it has gotten 126 likes

    • Developed by Google Inc.
    • Proprietary and Free product.
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    Google Goggles was added to AlternativeTo by Jeffington on Sep 15, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 12, 2021.

    Recent user activities on Google Goggles

    • langosta Upvoted a comment on Google Lens as an alternative to Google Goggles
      Lens is a valid alternative to Goggles because it offers extremely similar features to Goggles. It tries to identify the content of the photo and give you useful search results and actions that you could take on that data.
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      10 months ago
    • langosta thinks Google Lens is an alternative to Google Goggles
      10 months ago
    • chrisfung thinks Google Lens is an alternative to Google Goggles
      about 1 year ago