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,...
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
- iPhone
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.
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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Supported 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
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Tags
- Search Engine
- image-based
- image-analysis
- search-by-sight
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langostaUpvoted a comment on Google Lens as an alternative to Google GogglesLens 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.- langostathinks Google Lens is an alternative to Google Goggles
- chrisfungthinks Google Lens is an alternative to Google Goggles
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