If the race for the best geo-social network gave you the impression that local and mobile were converging and that the future involved words like 'Mocal' or 'Lobile' (ok, I just made that up - you probably didn't think that), then Google Goggles...
One uses Google Goggles, YouTube and Teracent technology to let users take a picture with their smartphone to conduct Google searches. They also showed how pointing Goggles at a movie poster to search for more information would run a movie trailer...
Google Goggles currently blends Augmented Reality with visual search. Right now, video head mounted displays and see through head mounted displays for AR are pretty clunky, and is missing positioning technologies to support it.
Here's proof: Goo Goo + Goggles = Google.goo + goo) - goo))+ (goggles - g squared - s) = google. Spot Runner Buys Weblistic: Local Search on Video SteroidsToday Spot Runner announced its acquisition of Weblistic, a provider of local online...
Google goggles Hub for major expansion. Yahoo, Google Eye A Lead Role In Emerging Video Search Field. Of the majors, only Google has implemented Google Local UK. Yahoo Search Marketing and Google AdWords compared.
