After watching the CNBC Special, Inside the Mind of Google, I was very excited to learn about a new product being developed for Android Mobile Phones called Google Goggles.  Google Goggles is a visual search tool that uses the android phone’s camera as it’s search interface.  As outlined by Android Central Google takes the following steps to return search results of objects that take photographs of with Goggles:

  • We first send the user’s image to Google’s datacenters
  • We then create signatures of objects in the image using computer vision algorithms
  • We then compare signatures against all other known items in our image recognition databases; and
  • We then figure out how many matches exist; and
  • We then return one or more search results, based on available meta data and ranking signals; and
  • We do all of this in just a few seconds

Google’s video of how it all works is here:

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