MG, when are you updating us all on the Crunchpad travesty?

Mike had all his head honchos working on this thing, apparently. I assume you were involved.

Are you gonna put your hands up and admit you screwed up?

Sounds very similar to the SnapTell app that’s been available on iPhones for well over a year.

Amazing.

Sheesh, google has been on the move today, announcing new things right and left.

Still, it would be awesome if Google did make a pair of googly goggles that you can buy, that would help you search for things as you where them. It would be grate for looking for lost items, or finding a particular person in a crowd. Still though, this is a good start.

Real-time search just announced..

Sounds even better than barcode scanning wines. Look for it (some day!) in Wine by the Bar’s apps.

What I want to know is when will Techcrunch make it’s official response to FusionGarage’s joojoo announcement today?

That is obviously the only REAL techcrunch story today!

They demoed this on the CNBC special last week called “Inside the Mind of Google.”

The app is in the Android market… Try it out..so far it is ok…not 100% but pretty good!

hmm.. telling me a wine has a hint of apricots, I think the label will tell me that! I was honestly hoping for something a little more exciting.. like being able to take a picture of my dog and have it tell me it was an English bulldog and then search for information about the breed, as an example.
*yawn* shop savvy and other bar code searching apps are good enough for this…

How is this different then SnapTell on the iPhone? I have been using it for months. Used it to find a book on metal engraving that was old enough to not have a bar code on it. SnapTell found it by the cover without problem.

Eden of the East?

Google Goggles is now live in the Android Market!

If I was blind, I would just walk around with these on.

What about pointing Google Image Search to an image file and having it tell me where else I can find that image?

Impressive!

Companies like Kooaba, Snaptell have been providing this technology on both iPhone and Android since 2 years.

That’s awesome. I’m not very familiar with SnapTell, but doesn’t that only work with amazon.com?

who owns what the images translate to? what if there are two parties that have contentious ownership over what an image resolves to? is google proposing an imagedns? how do you add images to it?

what i am concerned about privacy of people as not only they could be searched instantaneously also that would we not become too much indulged in the web, even having it on our eyes as walk,

http://thetechnologycafe.com/goggle-search-by-google-a-new-way-to-search/

A step away from Sixth Sense http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ but looks clever. I will probably have to get an android or iphone in the next year or two. This is a big step for a neo-Luddite like me.

Companies like SnapTell or kooaba offer mobile visual search apps for quite some time now. And they are available on other platforms such as the iPhone.

[...] one thing for Google to talk about how cool its new Goggles service is, and to show it off in staged demo videos — it’s another to see it in action. Our own [...]

Yes, indeed. What’s the TC response?

this is cool: it’s the same but on the web http://www.photocontext.net

yeah, kooaba and snaptell have been doing this for quite a while, suddenly Google does it and NOW it’s amazing …

Why does only google get to do AI stuff correctly!
http://spaceyfacey.com/2009/12/07/they-finally-came-up-with-a-product-called-googles/

Is google goggles globally available or only in the US because I can’t find it in the market in the Netherlands

Has someone from the US with this installed backed it up (with astro or similar) and made an APK available for download? It seems it’s US-only on the market…

maybe there’s no comment as there’s a pending case? i doubt mike arrington will swallow all these offenses by that indian company

it’s Google, stupid!

Yes, and Red Laser, too.

What a stretch to say that this is the first non-text search for the phone.

It’s cool, I guess, to have your phone tell you that the Golden Gate Bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge, but I think iPhone users are just fine now.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-24816-New-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d7-Google-Goggles-on-the-iPhone-No

Android 1.6+. Yet another app that won’t work on the Hero. HTC better update their shit, soon.

Motion seconded, I can’t find it either

Not available in Canada? I just searched on my Hero and couldn’t find it.

That looks awesome! I just submitted my e-mail address… Can’t wait to auto-tag my digital photos.

When Google launched their voice search, I thought it’ll only be a matter of time until they do visual search.

Image recognition has been around for awhile. As some of you pointed out SnapTell and some other MMS recognition systems.

Nevertheless, with Google’s extensive search result database, it will be interesting if this is deployed successfully, complimenting their text and voice search capabilities.

Kudos to Google.

Very impressive! It’s apps like this one that may well get me to switch from BlackBerry to Android.

Insanely interesting. Like RedLaser coupled with some of the better augmented reality apps. This is just a harbinger of what’s to come. http://bit.ly/7MM0cK

Within 5-10 years apps like this will become so seamless and reliable that they could completely change the face of commerce.

oh please.. this time google googles what?

Except SnapTell only works for “books, CDs, DVDs, and video games” (per their own description) and Red Laser only does barcodes.

It has been available for Android for a long time as well.

Weird.. I’m not able to find it all. What section is it in? Searching ‘google goggles’ shows nothing

Oh, 1.6 only. That should have been noted on the article/on the labs page.

This is the kind of thing that Apple should be afraid of. Sure there have been loosely related apps like barcode scanners available on the iPhone for years, but Google has access to data and resources Apple and iPhone developers can only dream of. This is just the very beginning.

it’s sad that anyone can snap your pretty face…and pull you on the web. A sad day indeed

Arrington must have cliimbed the freakin walls after reading or listening about the “official” “joojoo” launch.

[...] Unless you’ve been sleeping under a pile of old Commodore 64s, you’ve heard about the Google Goggle announcement.  The service allows you to use pictures to search the web.  The service is amazing [...]

[...] TechCruch was able to get up close an personal with Google Goggles at the Google Search Event. Google Goggles is a new Android App that allows you to take a photo and then get information back on whatever you have caught in your sights!! [...]

sounds like a retarded version of 6th Sense !

[...] : TechCrunch [...]

Does not work here in USA with my Hero either.

Can’t find it in the Dutch android market…
Damnit, again a powerfull google application that only seems to be available in the US?
GOOGLE WAKE UP: in europa everybody is waiting, why not a global release? (the same goes for the navigator)

Ah, I see:
“Available on phones that run Android 1.6+ (i.e. Donut or Eclair)”

@ HTC: hurry up with Eclair for the Hero please. ;-)

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not for Hero :(

SNap tell only works on cd’s etc available in US too so pretty useless in Europe..

I really like this and hope it makes it’s way to the iPhone!

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Isn’t this the augmented reality ?

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+1

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Goggles uses Google data center to pull out the information. So primarily nothing to worry about privacy of people, as Google don’t contain normal people’s information

I think Dr. Seus is going to be pretty mad that some one stole his Google Goggles.

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It may just be me… but this scares me a bit. http://bit.ly/8qIVDu

Wow, excellent. Good information.

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its a great tool and Google is the best ever

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[...] Search By Sight With Google Goggles by Tech Crunch [...]

An alternative mobile visual search company with potential for the iPhone and broader labeling capabilities:
http://www.iqengines.com/

[...] of an object with your cameraphone Android phone and it will tell you more info on it. TechCrunch reported from the demo yesterday in Mountain View: The example that Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra [...]

[...] Google Goggles homepage for more information or this blog post from [...]

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Translation would be nice, I guess, but I would much MUCH prefer Goggles to be a RELIABLE means of capturing contact information from the printed page into my Google Contacts. For that, it’s pretty hit and miss, often failing to complete the OCR sweep before deciding to find something irrelevant that resembles what is obviously just a street address and phone number

.The expedition: http://bit.ly/google-goggles-expedition

Works great on the Droid X!

Yes, indeed. What’s the TC response?