Originally Posted by pi r squared:
“I think there was talk at one point about you being able to search Google just by taking a picture - eg. you could take a picture of the Sistine Chapel and get information on it that way, rather than typing "Sistine Chapel" in directly. Presumably that's what the Camera permission would have been for, although I've just checked and neither Chrome nor Chrome Beta require the Camera permission.”
“I think there was talk at one point about you being able to search Google just by taking a picture - eg. you could take a picture of the Sistine Chapel and get information on it that way, rather than typing "Sistine Chapel" in directly. Presumably that's what the Camera permission would have been for, although I've just checked and neither Chrome nor Chrome Beta require the Camera permission.”
You can already search Google using an image. It's called Google Goggles: http://www.google.co.uk/mobile/goggles/#text




