The rift between Apple and Google seems to once again be shrinking , or at least changing shape . Google hasupdated its iPhone search app with Google Goggles , a feature it debuted for Android earphone about a yr ago .
Google Goggles is an intriguing feature of speech ( though some also call it “ terrorise ” ) that essentially give up you to search the world around you using your equipment ’s camera . Want to know more about a construction , house painting , or book that you ’re looking at ? snatch up a shot of it with your iPhone and Google will dig up information from source like Wikipedia , Google Book Search , Google Maps , and other vane resource . We ’ve embedded Google ’s demo video below to avail you get a better mind of Google Goggles in action .
or else of release Google Goggles as a separate app , Google added it to Google Mobile App , its Swiss - Army - knife - like app for explore the Web and accessing other Google services .
Google Goggles take quite a while to make it on iOS , but the fact that it get in at all could augur well for the two company ’ human relationship . Things have n’t been entirely rosy-cheeked between Google and Apple in the nomadic space : Apple yanked Google Voice apps from the App Store last year and to date cover to nurse Google ’s prescribed Voice app for “ study . ” However , Apple recently loosened some of its restrictive App Store policies , and isonce again allowing allowing third - company Google Voice appsin the computer memory , with Google ’s own app rumour to be in the offing .
Google Mobile App version 0.7.0.4836 ( yes , that ’s the prescribed update phone number ) is uncommitted now in the App Store for free . It ’s a universal app that requires an iPhone , iPod touch , or iPad lam iOS 3.0 or later .
Updated at 2:31pm PT with Google ’s demo video
update at 2:49pm PT to move out iPod feeling as a supported gimmick
