Google ‘image tagging’ domain, gadgets for search
by DJ Neawedde | 31st August 2006
Google has registered the domain GoogleImageTagger.com, leading to more speculation over what they plan to do regarding ‘image search’. Via Googling Google
This follows Google’s aquisition of Neven Vision, a biometric company specializing in image recognition. With Google looking to integrate some advanced techniques into their own image search or with Picasa.
And what about the leak of the Google Vision concept gadget? The device that will “will tag and name exactly what your staring at,” and which supposedly is “combining GPS, OLED technology and advanced image recognition in the form of a retractable screen device.”
Oh yes indeed, they are up to something in Mountain View.
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