The modern search landscape: How and where to reach your target audience
Today's web users go beyond traditional search engines to search. Learn about the platforms that should be on every search marketer’s radar.
Topic: Goggles
Google announces Google Lens, an AI-powered visual search tool
At today's Google I/O 2017 conference keynote, Google introduces a new visual search tool coming to Google Assistant and Google Photos.
Google Voice Search & Search By Image Comes To Desktops
Mobile innovation is fueling Google’s search offerings for the desktop, as the company today announced two new search interfaces — Voice and Image — inspired by mobile Voice Search and Google Goggles, respectively. With Voice Search for the desktop, which is a feature of the Chrome browser, users click a microphone icon in the search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 10, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Just Weeks Away, A Preview Of The Google +1 Button For Websites Today at the Google I/O conference, Google gave developers a preview of how the Google +1 button can be […]
Google Goggles Gets Upgrade On Android Devices
Google has announced a trio of updates to Goggles, its visual search tool that analyzes mobile photos and provides (hopefully) matching search results/information about the image. Since the search results don’t always match the image — “visual recognition is still a complicated task,” Google’s blog post explains — one of the upgrades involves a way […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Acquisition Marketers And The SEO ROI Dilemma After over 12 years practicing the art of SEO, and selling SEO services to clients, I thought the industry had reached a stage of […]
He Said/She Said Between Google & CNN On Face Recognition Story
This morning I read the CNN story that said Google was finally going to incorporate facial recognition technology into its Goggles app or another mobile application. I then wrote an opinion piece that argued Google was courting a major privacy backlash, despite seeming to have privacy controls worked out in the article. Thereafter I was […]
Google Not Planning To Release Mobile Face Recognition: Update
Contrary to what I reported earlier based on a seemingly very credible CNN report, Google is not planning to release a version of its mobile app Goggles with face recognition technology. Google has had the capability for several years but so far refrained from putting it out in the world other than on Picasa. I […]
Google Goggles Has Mad Sudoku Skillz
Google Goggles will be the death of Sudoku. Really, what’s the point in staring intently over a grid of lines and numbers and trying to figure out which missing numbers belong in which empty boxes when you can just fire up Google Goggles and solve the whole puzzle in a matter of seconds? Like this: […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 16, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Image Search Now With Leaderboard Ads The Google AdWords Blog announced a new ad format available on the image search vertical. The new ad format is the old-style leaderboard display […]
Google Promotes Goggles As Aid To Traditional Marketing
Google is busy using product search and local search to build bridges between online research and offline transactions. Now with its visual search app, Goggles, the company is trying to promote the idea that marketers can use it to connect traditional media (e.g., print or outdoor ads) to “immersive” and dynamic online experiences. This is […]
Google Integrates Visual Search Into Mobile App For iPhone
Google Goggles is an imperfect but promising technology that allows users to search with their cameras instead of their keyboards. It’s a kind of parallel world to voice search. Both of these technologies attempt to make it much easier for users to use search on mobile devices and avoid having to manually key in text […]
Google Goggles v1.1 Translates Menus, Books & More
The Google Mobile Blog announced a new version of Google Goggles now supports translating what it sees. You simply point the phone at the text you want translated, it could be a menu, sign, book or whatever and specify which text you want translated and snap the picture. Then Google will scan the words and […]
Plink: Google Buys Another Mobile Startup
No FTC review here: Google has acquired Plink a UK-based startup that offers specialized visual search (or augmented reality [sort of]) for art. You take a picture of an artwork or object d’art and information appears about the artist and/or the piece. As the site makes clear, PlinkArt was simply the first in an intended […]
Google Mobile Gets “What’s Nearby,” Voice Search Expands & “Goggles” Search By Snapping Pictures
The Google Search Evolution event today featured a fair amount of discussion of the impact of mobile on the future direction of search and the user experience. There was a flurry of announcements about mobile products and feature upgrades, summarized on the Google Mobile Blog. Danny live-blogged the event. Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 7, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Goggles Search By Images Google Goggles, which I wrote about this morning, is actually now live at google.com/mobile/goggles. The Google Mobile Blog announced it, saying: In a nutshell, Goggles lets […]
Google Goggles: Take A Picture With Your Phone, Search By Image
Google Goggles, which I wrote about this morning, is actually now live at google.com/mobile/goggles. The Google Mobile Blog announced it, saying: In a nutshell, Goggles lets users search for objects using images rather than words. Simply take a picture with your phone’s camera, and if we recognize the item, Goggles returns relevant search results. Right […]