CNBC recently aired a programme called “Inside the Mind of Google (NSDQ: GOOG)” and revealed that Google is workings on a visual search project that internally is referred to as Google Goggles. The application, which volition chancellor on Android devices, will let a drug user centering a photo of anything and then Google volition deliver search results based on that effigy. Google Product Manager Hartmut Neven took a photograph of the Santa Monica wharf during a demonstration presumption to CNBC interviewer Calophyllum longifolium Bartiromo and the application correctly identified the photo and gave relevant hunt results. It’s good it worked for the purposes of the demonstration, but back in Aug of this year when Google was examination the diligence with a focus grouping, they didn’t like what they were being shown. Google Goggles is built on circus tent of engineering that was acquired when Google purchased Neven Vision in 2006. Originally his software was used for facial nerve recognition, but now Google has become more ambitious. No clue when this will be available for the public to test out, or for which platforms, but at least you have some estimate of where the troupe is heading.
[Via: eWeek, Mobile River Burn]
Update: Video found with a demonstration of the overhaul on Search Engine Din Land. Fast forward to 3 proceedings 30 seconds and crank the audio since it’s very faint.
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