According to The New York Times, Google introduced a smartphone application last year that lets users take photos of objects and get search results in return. The app called Google Goggles is now available on Android phones and the iPhone.
Google is now bringing this functionality to five national brands in an experiment to see how consumers use their mobile devices to search for more information from Buick, Walt Disney, Diageo, T-Mobile and Delta Air Lines.
When a person scans a Goggles-enabled Buick ad, for instance, the first result to appear is a mobile site with a video, a photo gallery and the option to find a dealer.
Yes, this sounds a lot like QR Codes, but with Google Goggles, one grabs the entire image for processing.
Here’s a video from Google explaining the technology:
