Google Visual Search Coming Soon to Android 111
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Several sources have shared the news that "Google Goggles," publicly known as Google Visual Search, will be "coming soon" to an Android phone near you. Rather than typing in the search term, you will be able to just take a picture with your phone and search results will be returned. The new search was recently featured on CNBC's "Inside the Mind of Google." Unfortunately Goggles didn't pass muster with a recent focus group, so it could be a while before Google decides this is ready to hit the streets.
Great Idea, but... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Just one word for you, son--"porn" (Score:2, Insightful)
The trouble is, you'd need a source image to start with!
Re:Now they'll know what you've seen. (Score:2, Insightful)
One man's -1 Troll is another's +5 funny/insightful.
Re:Great Idea, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
AI needed? (Score:1, Insightful)
Searching for porn will be no fun. (Score:1, Insightful)
First you need a naked woman to see more naked woman.
And if you take a picture of your cock, you will get pictures of more cocks.
Re:AI needed? (Score:3, Insightful)
Do you suppose that there is a database containing the physical locations of all objects? How exactly would you use a GPS and orientation information to figure out which object a person is taking a picture of, a car for example?
Re:First step... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yep yep. There's a dark side, though. This will completely change the game regarding the (currently) presumed anonymity of photographs. Today it is impossible to take somebody's photo and then search for all matching photos on the internet, and so people do not much mind having their photos taken. Photo search will turn that on its head -- and the internet has a lonnnnnnng memory...
(And then we'll have "automatic aging" algorithms that can find photos of them while they were back in college partying.)
Re:Just one word for you, son--"porn" (Score:3, Insightful)
..and the chance of them getting working A.I. to handle the suggested visual recognition task reasonably well is so small that it also boggles the mind.
Since when do you need AI?
There's already plenty of machine vision software out there... Hell, my crappy digital camera is able to recognize a face well enough to tell if somebody blinked. All it has to do is match the image you just took to another image in its database with some degree of accuracy.
Then it can use the tags on the similar image to look things up... Or the words surrounding that similar image on the web...
Re:Why don't they focus on things that matter? (Score:3, Insightful)
cyanogenmod takes you about 5 minutes.
install addon via code.google.com that lets you flash it.
download update flash, backup existing memory.
reboot into cyanogenmod.
done, only further step is if you intend to format the memory card for ext3 so that you can store as many apps as you want. Also probably takes 10+minutes to download cyanogenmod. Yes, it is the solution and unlike apple, you're not going to be behind on updates or bricked due to flashing.
The bigger pain is when you have a million apps, you have a million updates.
Flash won't be gone immediately with HTML5, but it hopefully will be soon. Flash is horribly inefficient and runs like crap, and basically doesn't do plenty of things HTML5 does. So soon, flash will thankfully be gone.