Google Introduces Search By Sight

Normally Google offers a search engine in which users type in text and results are compiled according to the "keywords" entered. The company launched a new technology yesterday, which will offer the ability to search the web by submitting a photograph. Google has numerous applications the public doesn't even know about, most of the companies immediate users are only aware of the main search engine. This new technology called, Google Goggles, can recognize images anywhere from album covers to landmarks. The users simply take a photo with their camera, submit it as a search, then the computer runs it through its database.

The database can recognize faces but is not right now because of the millions of images it's holding right now. The brains at Google decided to not do facial recognition at this time but it may very well be an option soon to come. In this CNN article an example they show, was a user snapping a picture of a wine bottle they weren't familiar with, Google Goggles presented them with, "hints of apricot and hibiscus blossom." That description is in depth and far beyond what the user could come up with himself, all from uploading a mobile picture to Google.