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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.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Android
  • iPhone  iOS 10.0 required, included in the Google Search app.
Discontinued

In August 2018 Goggles app stopped working: Google now redirects users to Google Lens icon Google Lens app or, for incompatible phone, to Google Photos icon Google Photos which includes Lens' features.

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AntonyMalinko
Nov 16, 2011
-1

I often find it doesn't actually work. I suspect the idea is somewhat ahead of the technology

OmgItsTheSmartGuy
Feb 5, 2011
0

Google Goggles doesn't support the iPod Touch 4, even though it has a camera. Lame.

em4020
Oct 31, 2010
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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

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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  • Developed by

    US flagGoogle
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

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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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Google Goggles was added to AlternativeTo by Jeffington on Sep 15, 2010 and this page was last updated Jun 24, 2024.