Google on Tuesday released a version of its Google Goggles feature for Apple's iPhone.
Goggles lets you search by taking photos of things with your mobile phone. Take a photo of a landmark to get more details about its origins, or snap a pic of a DVD cover to find out more about the movie. Users can also speak commands to get location-based results. Saying 'best Italian restaurants,' for example, will return places in your immediate location.
Google has added the feature to its Google Mobile App for iPhone; the newest version is available now in the App Store. It is currently only available for the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 running iOS 4 or above because Goggles requires an auto-focusing camera.
To activate Goggles, tap on the camera button within the app. Goggles will analyze the image and highlight the objects it recognizes; click on them to find out more.
Google stressed that Goggles is still a Labs project, so it won't work with everything. 'It works well for things such as landmarks, logos and the covers of books, DVDs and games,' Google said in a blog post. 'However, it doesn't yet work for some things you might want to try like animals, plants or food.'
An Android version of Goggles was released in December."
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