{"id":672,"date":"2009-12-08T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:31:32","slug":"google-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/google-goggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/goggles_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-677 aligncenter\" title=\"goggles_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/goggles_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Text based search is the most prominent search available on the Internet these days. Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input to be able to crawl their databases for hits on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\">Google Goggles is a new application for the Android operating system that allows the user to perform searches by submitting photos or images. That\u2019s an interesting concept in a handful of situations. Say you are a tourist and want to know more about a building that you spotted. Maybe you even know the name of the building but not in your own language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other applications include identifying artwork, looking up items like books or wine and scanning contact information on business cards to find out more about the contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4&amp;]<\/p>\n<p>A picture is worth a thousand words. No need to type your search anymore. Just take a picture.\u00a0<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\">Find out what businesses are nearby.Just point your phone at a store.\u00a0This is just the beginning &#8211; it&#8217;s not quite perfect yet.Works well for some things, but not for all.\u00a0Your pictures, your control.Turn on &#8216;visual search history&#8217; to view or share your pictures at any time. Turn it off to discard them once the search is done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text based search is the most prominent search available on the Internet these days. Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input to be able to crawl their databases for hits on the topic. Google Goggles is a new application for the Android operating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,436,444,1071],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-android-operating-system","tag-google","tag-google-goggles","tag-visual-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}