The app “provides a true visual search based on results from a smartphone’s own camera, recognizing objects and turning up links to shopping sites when relevant,” Electronista reports.
Electronista reports, “Apple’s devices have been technically capable of using Goggles ever since the iPhone 3GS added the autofocus needed to get a reliable picture. Google’s app could be more accurare on the iPhone as tap-to-autofocus should be more precise than the usual automatic-only Android function. A front camera still rare in Android would raise the option of capturing some objects without having to hold them behind the phone.”
Read more in the full article here.
Beware of hard to erase Google tentacles.
Once, I put Google Goggles on. When I looked at my friend’s Droid, It looked like an iPhone 4….Until I took them off… When you party with your friends, make sure they aren’t wearing Google Goggles so they don’t regret something in the morning.
“How many goggles could a google geek grab, if a google geek could grab goggles?”.
I was hoping more for Google Gaggles.
I wouldn’t worry about Google. Anytime there’s a problem, just erase your identity. There’s a business with potential, a service that let’s you start your life with no hassle as often as you want. Of course it’d get weird if everyone addressed you by different names, not to mention the mail, paychecks, licenses, and taxes.
MDN- you need better proofreaders:
“Google’s app could be more accurare on the iPhone as tap-to-autofocus should be more precise than the usual automatic-only Android function.”
That should be “accurate” (not “accurare”).
And:
“A front camera still rare in Android would raise the option of capturing some objects without having to hold them behind the phone.”
This is not English. Maybe you wanted:
A front facing camera, still rare in Android phones, would raise the option…
While these quotes are taken verbatim from the original article, I still think it behooves you to fix the text before you publish it here. Just my 2¢ worth…
‘accurare’ – a rare form of accuracy, almost extinct, pop. in France, 18c.
Mayblee u shud spent moar thyme on anudder websight and not bodder us wit youare a-null corections.
@ MacMan–
MDN doesn’t write these articles.
Never run the Beer app at the same time as Google Goggles!
I think a more correct headline would be:
“Google threatens to release Goggles for iPhone…”
@ @MacMan
Bad spelin iz ainshunt jowk.
“accurare”: A paralysing poison, targeted very accurately, sourced from South America.
@MacMan
MDNs posts articles. MDN doesn’t have to check grammar. Get a life.
@MacMan
boring and pathetic post – go run a spelling bee instead of wasting MDN BW.
Giggle for a gaggle of Google Goggles
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