Are you on the go and you're feeling lazy to type in a search on your mobile phone? You don't know what landmark you're looking at? Need to enter in the details of a business card into your contacts list? Maybe you're wondering about a particular piece of artwork in front of you.

Google Goggles has the answer. With this Android application, you will be able to run searches by just taking photographs. The results will be the type of web results you'd get on a text search, plus a few suggestions specifically for the types of objects the application deals with the best.

For the moment Goggles works best with books, CDs, DVDs, works of art and products that have a text legend. It is not so accurate with food, animals, furniture or clothes yet, for example. However, the application can also provide information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview.

Visual search technology is still in its infancy but the applications of this technology are innumerable. Imagine asking for a suggestion for a chess move, identifying plants taking pictures of leaves or finding recipes to cook with a particular set of ingredients.

Goggles allows you to choose to save the pictures you take into your history or to delete them after the search. Also, a rating system helps train the system by asking users how accurate results were.

If you have an Android device, download Google Goggles from the marketplace for free. Versions for other devices will be coming out soon.

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/