iPhone Gets Google Goggles: First Look

Apple app overlords on Tuesday permitted Google to offer its Google Goggles visual search application to iPhone users via the App Store. For the iPhone masses unfamiliar with Google Goggles, this app is a very ambitious attempt by the search giant that allows you to - instead of typing your search terms - take a photo of the object you want to look up. Google then analyzes your photo and, providing it can recognize what you're taking a picture of, spits back appropriate information.

It sounds amazing. And it kinda is, but Google Goggles has big limitations as I found when I tested the application out on my iPhone 4.

Depending on the object you take a photo of, Google Goggles will give you different options - if it's a book, it will give you information on how to purchase it; if it's a landmark, it will give you information on the location; if it's a business card, it will let you put the information into your contacts.

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