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Google may ditch Goggles app

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8 years ago

March 29, 2016

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Google might decide to ditch Google Goggles, an app that identifies information seen through the camera in your phone.

Rumors indicate that the tech giant is well on its way to creating an app that combines Google Camera with Google Goggles.

Essentially making sure you can use company’s in-house camera app to also identify the objects around you, all by going through the company’s “Visual Search” technology.

Google Goggles is one of the company’s in-house developed hidden gems that’s available on the Play Store.

Users can start up the app and identify different objects and texts in the real world through the camera lens.

It can also be used to find similar objects to the one you’ve analyzed, it then searches through the Google database for images similar to the one you’ve taken.

It’s used both to get extra information on objects around you. If you feel like it’s time to check the integrity of a text it also lets you scan a whole text and provides a link to the original article.

You can also crop the portion of the image you want to analyze before analyzing an object, it helps the app determine what you’re really interested in.

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