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Another Revolution by Google.
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Written by Cindy Castillo, Staff Writer
Many years ago, google, known by many as one of the most popular search engines, was invented. It was a tool used on the computer that could allow somebody to enter text into a space, and from just typing one word, search the whole world wide web. This invention was known as Google. It was truly revolutionary. Google allowed people to do research with ease, look up local restaurants, and find a dry cleaner if their shirt was dirty. Google is still used by just about every person who surfs the web, but as time passes, technology increases. Now Google is on the verge of another breakthrough technology.
Computers are starting to get a lot smarter, and Google has came up with a search that allows you to upload a picture, and from that single picture you can bring up thousands of links that relate to that very picture. Google’s vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, states that “It is our goal to be able to identify any image,” he said. “It represents our earliest efforts in the field of computer vision. You can take a picture of an item, use that picture of whatever you take as the query.” Something this revolutionary might truly change research and the web all together.
This feature on Google, however, will not be available for some time as this project is still in the works. The vice president explains “Google Goggles works well on certain types of objects in certain categories.” Demonstrating an example of this feature in action, Gundotra exclaimed that when a guest came by his house for dinner, she brought a bottle of wine as a gift. Gundotra then says he took a picture of the bottle and entered the picture in on Goggle’s toolbar. The result was “hints of apricot and hibiscus blossom” and the search went far beyond this. The feature was also used as he took a picture of the Itsukushima Shrine in Japan, a landmark known very well to travelers everywhere. The results returned a description of the shrine on his mobile phone.
With this invention and the many more yet to come who knows what will stem from a computer revolution in the near future.
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