Google Goggles released for iPhone

By on Oct 5, 2010 at 6:30 PM
General October 5, 2010

Today, Google announced that its Goggles image search feature is immediately available in the App Store for Apple’s iPhone smartphone. The new feature, which will be bundled into the Google Mobile App, will support iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 devices running iOS 4 or higher.

“Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is still a Labs product. It works well for things such as landmarks, logos and the covers of books, DVDs and games. However, it doesn’t yet work for some things you might want to try like animals, plants or food,” explains Google.

Slap on those beer Goggles and get Googling. There is a brief video waiting for you after the break.

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  • momin

    first

    • MacMan

      The best part about you fell down your mommys leg during birth.

    • PC

      You mean “last” right?

  • teddy

    make sure you hold your phone right

    • Ernie

      I can’t believe that google fanboys have such little imagination. Truly sad. We need real and smart people to match whits with. Not kids like this that are so ignorant and foolish.

  • nicky8904

    technology blows my mind honestly

  • phil dough

    Where are Jarett and Norm? MacMan already weighed in with his typical astute nature. Can’t we get the whole trifecta of deep and insightful comments?

    Google loves everybody. I bet they are even working on WP7 apps.

    • MacMan

      Hifive !

    • Ernie

      Actually google NEEDS EVERYBODY! don’t think that google is so nice. They are a company that needs eyeballs to make money and they can’t ignore the number of iPhone users.

  • hey

    sweet

  • Scott

    I’d rock this on my white iPhone 4… if it existed! Still waiting Apple…

  • brianw

    This is how you know google is open. They give their, at once, competitive and own branded apps out to other store front.

    And yes, android is open source. Its manufacturers putting on the brakes.

    • Donny

      iOS is open source too, but the manufacture of iOS phones is putting on the brakes as well.

      Android is no more open source in REALITY than iOS on the iphone.

      • Drew

        iOS is open source…?? Shut your pie hole!!

      • anom

        iOS is not open source you tool! show me the source code and where I can contribute. douche.

      • Allen Walker

        You mean “two”? Douche..

      • Ugh

        He said “TOOL”, not “TOO”. So to correct him simply makes you a douche. :)

        Go ahead and dislike the comment. It’s ok. I’m just being a troll.

  • Drew

    Wowwww…!!! Google is waaay nicer than I would ever be to Apple.

  • blah

    I’ve had the pleasure of using google goggles on android for past few months, and its a truly amazing app coupled with all of googles great search tools.

    Now I’ll be able to get that on my iPhone… cool

    This is truly a great age we are living in… bet we’ll see some interesting uses for this visual search technology… like “where’d I put my keys”, phone replies “I last saw them on your desk”

  • bringit

    iPhone and Google playing nice. Good for all.

  • Androidfan

    Don’t be evil :-) google lives up to their mantra. I love them.

  • Sean R

    The goggles, they do nothing!

    seriously though, it’s great my Apple friends can use the Google products.

  • wanderer

    Contrary to what you guys think, Google and Apple are hand in hand with some things. They are both in the business in making money. They don’t war on each other like their fans do. Everything is just business to them. Both CEOs are probably still good buddies. I use Apple and Google products particularly with Chrome, emails and search engine. My preference in Google is mostly software base rather than hardware. Just signed up for the Google Docs for work related stuff.

  • http://google Albouraay

    Thank yu

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