Google's Goggles headed to iPhones this year

From CNET News.com: Good news for iPhone users who had lusted over the Android-only app Goggles from Google. It's set to hit the App Store sometime in the next three months.

A report by The Register, which was covering the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Monday, makes note of Google staff engineer David Petrou's keynote, wherein Petrou said the application was, in fact, still in the works. Better yet: pending Apple's approval, it's scheduled for release by the end of 2010.

Goggles was unveiled by Google last December as a way for users to search the Web using the camera on their mobile phone. It was later added as a built-in application in the company's Android mobile operating system.

When a user takes a photo within the app, it's sent to Google, where it's cross-referenced with a database of billions of images. Google then returns search results for that item--that is, if it can find a match.

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