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[G] API integrations with Checkout get much faster

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:54 PM PDT

Official Google Checkout Blog: API integrations with Checkout get much faster

We're thrilled to announce a significant development in helping you get your business up and running faster with Google Checkout.

Earlier today, we released a new feature in the Checkout API that makes it easier for sellers to integrate Google Checkout into their order management systems. Please visit the new tutorial and Java and PHP libraries to learn how to integrate this new feature. The reduced number of API notifications and the elimination of the requirement of obtaining SSL Certificates make it possible to integrate Google Checkout with your existing order management system in just a few hours.

If you're already integrated with Google Checkout, you will not experience any changes with your current integration. However as part of this change, existing Checkout merchants will see a re-designed Integration Settings page. Instead of opting into individual features that were part of the API, you will now be able to select a single API Version. Details of each version are available in the API release notes.



This will also make it easier for sellers who have already integrated with Checkout to manage the API features they wish to use in the future.

We're excited about this release and confident that it will improve the experience of developers as they add Checkout to sites. Please do share your experiences with the new Checkout API (and anything else Checkout related!) in our forums.

Posted by Igor Ginzburg, Software Engineer and Satyajeet Salgar, Product Manager
URL: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2010/05/api-integrations-with-checkout-get-much.html

[G] Indian Premiere League cricket exceeds expectations

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:54 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: Indian Premiere League cricket exceeds expectations

Season three of the Indian Premier League (IPL) ended last week when the Chennai Super Kings beat the Mumbai Indians in the final match. That game brought to a close a fast-paced and fun season of cricket, which was available for the first time on the IPL channel on YouTube.

Over the course of the season, the IPL channel racked up nearly 55 million views from 200 countries and territories around the globe, blowing away our expectations. But perhaps most surprising for us was the popularity of the IPL finals in the U.S., where the sport has a relatively small cult following: views from the U.S. of the IPL channel for the semi finals and finals actually exceeded views from India, where the sport is hugely popular.

Here are some additional stats you might find interesting:
  • On the day of the final match, the IPL channel got about four million views.
  • The majority of users who viewed the final watched it in real-time.
  • The IPL channel is now the #1 most subscribed channel in India of all time.
  • U.S. was second only to India in terms of total channel views for the entire season.
Before we launched the IPL channel on YouTube, we anticipated a total of around 10 million streams for the entire season. Your views beat our goals by over 5x. Thanks to everyone for tuning in.

Amit Agrawal, Strategic Partner Development Manager, recently watched "2010 IPL Final: Awards Ceremony."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/Vjdlnu8HuvI/indian-premiere-league-cricket-exceeds.html

[G] AdWords system maintenance, cancelled

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:54 PM PDT

Inside AdWords: AdWords system maintenance, cancelled

The AdWords system maintenance, previously scheduled for May 8th, has been cancelled.  If you saw a message in your AdWords account alerting you about the scheduled maintenance, please disregard it. 

Post Posted by Daniel Friedman, Inside AdWords crew
URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/05/adwords-system-maintenance-cancelled.html

[G] Honoring those who give voice to the silenced

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Google Public Policy Blog: Honoring those who give voice to the silenced

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy
(cross posted from the Official Google Blog)

It's said that change comes through the concerted efforts of small groups of people who dream of better times ahead. And then do something about it.

Today in Santiago, Chile, Google and the group Global Voices recognized three groups from around the world who are fighting for free expression online from Africa to Asia with the first "Breaking Borders" awards. These awards, supported by Thomson Reuters, are meant to honor those who are using the Internet to give voice to those once silenced, make the activities of governments more transparent, and standing up for the rights of dissidents.


The awards — given today at the Global Voices Summit where Internet activists from 60 countries have gathered — were originally announced November 3, 2009, when Google and others marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the aim of celebrating how the Internet has become a vital ally in worldwide efforts to advance freedom and political change. This is particularly true at a time when dissidents, journalists and bloggers remain under severe pressure in the online and offline worlds.

An international jury of experts reviewed nominations from around the world and chose the awardees in three categories: advocacy, technology and policy. Each of the groups honored will receive a $10,000 grant to further their work. The winners are:

Kubatana.net (advocacy)
An online community for Zimbabwean activists, Kubatana uses the Internet, email, SMS, blogs and print materials to disseminate information to the general public. Cited for its extraordinary contributions while operating under in a tense and dangerous political atmosphere, Kubatana's contributions also include an online library of more than 16,000 human rights and civic reports together with a directory listing over 240 NGOs. Beyond its significance as a resource for information on Zimbabwe, Kubatana has also developed Freedom Fone, innovative software that marries the mobile phone to audio voice menus and SMS to give citizens new ways to communicate with one another.

BOSCO - Uganda (technology)
BOSCO was cited for its tremendously effective and creative use of long-exisiting technology to foster social and economic development and peace building in rural communities of northern Uganda. Launched in April 2007, BOSCO began as a solar powered, long-range wireless computer network covering locations in former Internally Displaced Persons camps across the Gulu and Amuru districts. Low power PCs and VoIP phones were installed in schools, health centers and parish offices, bringing Internet, phone and Intranet connectivity to remote areas. BOSCO's long-term vision is to build collaborative, web-based networks. Today it focuses on developing and facilitating Web 2.0 training, online digital ethnography and collaborative online communication mediums between Internet sites.

The Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism (policy)
An independent, not-for-profit media agency, the PCIJ was founded by nine Filipino journalists in 1989 — with borrowed office space, an old-DOS-based computer, a second-hand electric typewriter, and office furniture bought from a thrift shop — to promote the values of investigative reporting in fostering good governance, freedom of expression, and the people's right to know. In 20 years, the PCIJ has produced 500 investigative reports, two dozen books on journalism and governance, five full-length films and dozens of video documentaries. It has conducted a hundred training seminars for journalists in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, and won over 120 national and international awards. The PCIJ maintains a multimedia website, an institutional blog; a database site on politics and governance; and institutional accounts on Twitter and YouTube.
URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/05/honoring-those-who-give-voice-to.html

[G] Honoring those who give voice to the silenced

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: Honoring those who give voice to the silenced

It's said that change comes through the concerted efforts of small groups of people who dream of better times ahead. And then do something about it.

Today in Santiago, Chile, Google and the group Global Voices recognized three groups from around the world who are fighting for free expression online from Africa to Asia with the first "Breaking Borders" awards. These awards, supported by Thomson Reuters, are meant to honor those who are using the Internet to give voice to those once silenced, make the activities of governments more transparent, and standing up for the rights of dissidents.


The awards — given today at the Global Voices Summit where Internet activists from 60 countries have gathered — were originally announced November 3, 2009, when Google and others marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the aim of celebrating how the Internet has become a vital ally in worldwide efforts to advance freedom and political change. This is particularly true at a time when dissidents, journalists and bloggers remain under severe pressure in the online and offline worlds.

An international jury of experts reviewed nominations from around the world and chose the awardees in three categories: advocacy, technology and policy. Each of the groups honored will receive a $10,000 grant to further their work. The winners are:

Kubatana.net (advocacy)
An online community for Zimbabwean activists, Kubatana uses the Internet, email, SMS, blogs and print materials to disseminate information to the general public. Cited for its extraordinary contributions while operating under in a tense and dangerous political atmosphere, Kubatana's contributions also include an online library of more than 16,000 human rights and civic reports together with a directory listing over 240 NGOs. Beyond its significance as a resource for information on Zimbabwe, Kubatana has also developed Freedom Fone, innovative software that marries the mobile phone to audio voice menus and SMS to give citizens new ways to communicate with one another.

BOSCO - Uganda (technology)
BOSCO was cited for its tremendously effective and creative use of long-exisiting technology to foster social and economic development and peace building in rural communities of northern Uganda. Launched in April 2007, BOSCO began as a solar powered, long-range wireless computer network covering locations in former Internally Displaced Persons camps across the Gulu and Amuru districts. Low power PCs and VoIP phones were installed in schools, health centers and parish offices, bringing Internet, phone and Intranet connectivity to remote areas. BOSCO's long-term vision is to build collaborative, web-based networks. Today it focuses on developing and facilitating Web 2.0 training, online digital ethnography and collaborative online communication mediums between Internet sites.

The Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism (policy)
An independent, not-for-profit media agency, the PCIJ was founded by nine Filipino journalists in 1989 — with borrowed office space, an old-DOS-based computer, a second-hand electric typewriter, and office furniture bought from a thrift shop — to promote the values of investigative reporting in fostering good governance, freedom of expression, and the people's right to know. In 20 years, the PCIJ has produced 500 investigative reports, two dozen books on journalism and governance, five full-length films and dozens of video documentaries. It has conducted a hundred training seminars for journalists in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, and won over 120 national and international awards. The PCIJ maintains a multimedia website, an institutional blog; a database site on politics and governance; and institutional accounts on Twitter and YouTube.

Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Public Policy
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/honoring-those-who-give-voice-to.html

[G] Upcoming free webinar: Uncovering opportunities with display advertising

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Inside AdWords: Upcoming free webinar: Uncovering opportunities with display advertising

Display advertising is changing rapidly with the emergence of audience data, engaging new ad formats, dynamic creatives, and new technologies. We'd like to invite you to a webinar about our recent innovations in display advertising and how marketers are incorporating it into their strategy.

Specifically, we'll discuss:
  • Google's vision and recent innovations in display advertising
  • How to best take advantage of our offerings, from planning to optimizing your campaigns
  • How advertisers are incorporating the Google Content Network into their marketing strategy
Register here for the webinar to be held on May 20, 2010 at 11:00am PST / 1:00pm CST / 2:00pm EST.

Posted by Katrina Kurnit, Inside AdWords crew
URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/05/upcoming-free-webinar-uncovering.html

[G] New AdWords ID Data in Google Analytics API

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Google Analytics Blog: New AdWords ID Data in Google Analytics API

Google Analytics helps marketers measure the performance of their ad campaigns. By linking Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, advertisers get a detailed picture of the performance of their ad creatives and keywords. Manually optimizing campaigns works well for the top 100 or 1000 keywords, but can be a challenge for the 1000+ keywords in the long tail.

To help advertisers, we are releasing 5 new dimensions through the Google Analytics API that correlate to the AdWords API IDs.

  • ga:adwordsCustomerID
  • ga:adwordsCampaignID
  • ga:adwordsAdGroupID
  • ga:adwordsCriteriaID
  • ga:adwordsCreativeID

This allows advertisers to gain new insight by by combining data from Google Analytics and Google AdWords data sets.








Likewise, clients can increase their efficiency by automating reporting using applications. For example, a developer could write an application that ranks all the ad and keyword combinations by bounce rate for the top 50 landing pages, making it easy to identify which ad creatives could be optimized. Running such a report at night would allow an analyst to spend their day focused on optimizing ad creatives to yield real outcomes.


To help you get started quickly, we wrote an article that walks through the steps of joining data from both sources. We also provided the sample application that produces the table above. Here's a sample Java code snippet that shows exactly how to insert the IDs from Google Analytics into a Google AdWords API filter:



  public AdGroupCriterionIdFilter[] getCriterionFilters(DataFeed
     analyticsData) {

   int numFilters = analyticsData.getEntries().size();
   AdGroupCriterionIdFilter[] critFilters = new
       AdGroupCriterionIdFilter[numFilters];

   for (int i = 0; i < numFilters; i++) {

     DataEntry entry = analyticsData.getEntries().get(i);
     Long groupID =     
        Long.parseLong(entry.stringValueOf("ga:adwordsAdGroupID"));
     Long critID =  
        Long.parseLong(entry.stringValueOf("ga:adwordsCriteriaID"));

     AdGroupCriterionIdFilter critFilter = new AdGroupCriterionIdFilter();
     critFilter.setAdGroupId(groupID);
     critFilter.setCriterionId(critID);
     critFilters[i] = critFilter;
   }
   return critFilters;
 }



Please keep in mind that all applications that combine data with the AdWords API must follow the AdWords API terms of service.

We're really excited about the new possibilities this data allows. We look forward to hearing how you use it to improve your ad campaigns!

Thanks!

Posted by Alex Lucas, Google Analytics API Team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-adwords-id-data-in-google-analytics.html

[G] Live AdSense webinars available in six languages

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Inside AdSense: Live AdSense webinars available in six languages

The AdSense team is hosting a new series of live online webinars this summer. These webinars will focus on AdSense for Search, important technical tips, and best practices for optimizing ad placements, formats and colors on your site. Our first webinar is:
  1. AdSense Optimisation Best Practices
    Wednesday 12th May at 5pm GMT
In this webinar we'll guide you through how you can implement AdSense on your site for optimal results. We'll cover:
  • Optimizing your AdSense for Content implementation by choosing the right placements, ad formats and colour palettes
  • Tracking the results of your changes via channels
  • Improving the user experience and generating additional revenue with AdSense for Search
You can sign up for our webinars through our Help Center. These webinars are also available in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Just change the language drop-down to see what's available in your market.


Prior to the webinar, you can start asking questions related to this topic and vote on others' questions in our Google Moderator. We'll answer as many questions as possible during the live event. If you're not familiar with Moderator, please check out our Google Moderator Help.

Posted by Caroline Halpin and Miguel Romar - AdSense Optimization Team
URL: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/05/live-adsense-webinars-available-in-six.html

[G] The Google design, turned up a notch

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: The Google design, turned up a notch

This week we introduced our latest update to search, and I wanted to share a bit of our thinking on the design team. In short, we tried to take all the things we strive for at Google and make them better: powerful technology, snappy results, simplicity and a fun and quirky personality. Our goal was to take a design known by millions of people and make it better. As a designer, it's hard to think of a more exciting challenge.

During our process we focused on people's rising expectations for search. As the web has evolved over the past decade, people have been typing more sophisticated searches and seeking out specialized search tools to match. To keep pace with rapid change online, we have teams of engineers working across Google to develop new ways to present and refine search results. Our central challenge with our latest redesign was to figure out how to squeeze all these tools and technologies into a single page.

A common way to expand the flexibility of a website has been to add a left-hand panel of links, often referred to by designers as a "left-hand nav." We've been creating mocks of left-hand panels since the earliest days of Google and have tested these designs with users as far back as 2006. Overall, we've found they can provide a great way to navigate without getting in the way of the main content, but they can also be distracting. Our users want more powerful tools, but they also want the simplicity they've come to expect from Google.

As a first step towards finding that balance, we introduced the Search Options panel last May, including a toggle to open and close. This way we could quickly try out new search tools, such as refinements by time and content types. Using the lessons from Search Options, designers, researchers and engineers worked side-by-side to explore a vast array of possibilities for a permanently open panel of search tools. We made hundreds of prototypes and gathered feedback from user studies, Googlers and through experiments — including one of our largest visible experiments ever. In the end, we came up with a design that provides dynamic, relevant search tools on the left, while lightening and updating the aesthetics all around. Here's a picture of the Search Options panel (left) and our new results page (right):


We knew that adding a left-hand panel would inevitably add some weight to the results page, so we took a number of steps to lighten other aspects of the design. The overall visual redesign started with the Google logo. Here's an image comparing the old logo (top) and the new logo (bottom):
The new logo is lighter, brighter and simpler. We took the very best qualities of our design — personality and playfulness — and distilled them. The logo was the foundation for new icons and hundreds of tiny alterations designed to accommodate and seamlessly integrate the expanded functionality of the left-hand panel. For example, we lightened up the footer at the bottom of the page by removing the blue shading and the underlines on the links, lightening the color and expanding the search box. Here's a picture of the old footer (top) compared with the new (bottom):

While I'm very happy about our latest improvements, a designer's work is never done. We're already testing additional refinements and we'll continue to listen to all of you as we work to continue making search better.

If you're curious, here are some of the other design prototypes we tried (you might have to click to magnify some of these images):
  1. Blue homepage: We've always had a strong affinity for blue — after all, blue is usually the color of web links, so it binds the web together. It became the basis for many designs.
  2. Blue button: The big blue button made it all the way to our first external experiment, where it was promptly rejected by users. We heard you loud and clear and changed the button in the next round.
  3. Universal bars: This design emphasizes different types of results with labeled blocks in the main results pane, such as books, news and shopping.
  4. Blue results: This is one of the final blue designs we created and marks the point when we renamed the "Web" link to "Everything" — a label that gets closer to the intent of our mission to organize all the world's information.
Posted by Jon Wiley, Senior User Experience Designer
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-design-turned-up-notch.html

[G] Live, from Google I/O!

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Official Google Blog: Live, from Google I/O!

(Cross-posted with the Google Code Blog)

More than 4,000 developers will be joining us at Google I/O on May 19-20, and if we had the capacity, we'd host many more. In order to give the entire developer community a chance to participate live, we're happy to announce that both keynote presentations will be streamed live. To watch, just go to http://www.youtube.com/GoogleDevelopers at the start of the keynotes each day. We recommend watching on a high-speed connection for the best quality.

Here's the schedule for the keynotes at I/O — it's also available on our agenda page:
  • Day 1 Keynote: Wednesday, May 19, 9:00 -10:30am PT
  • Day 2 Keynote: Thursday, May 20, 8:30-10:00am PT
Both keynote sessions feature exciting new technologies, so be sure to mark your calendars!

Posted by Christine Tsai, Google Developer Team
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/live-from-google-io.html

[G] More Google applications coming for Google Apps customers

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Official Google Enterprise Blog: More Google applications coming for Google Apps customers

9 of the top 20 requests from Google Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google, not just for the core suite of messaging and collaboration applications. Later this year we'll dramatically accelerate customer access to innovation, and give users the convenience of using any Google service allowed by their administrator from a single account affiliated with their organization.

For example, coworkers will be able to publish their organization's blog on Blogger, share project images with Picasa Web Albums, track industry news in Google Reader, advertise online with AdWords and much more, all without switching back and forth between multiple accounts. While these additional applications won't initially be covered by the core suite's support and service level agreement, this change will open up the spectrum of Google's functionality to businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps and we'll evaluate future support options.



We intend to have all Standard, Premier and Education Edition customers moved to the new infrastructure that enables this change in the fall, and customers who would like more control over the timing of this change will be able to make the switch voluntarily during the summer.

This will be a significant overhaul to our underlying systems and we want to make this transition as seamless as possible for customers. We'll be sharing information in advance so Google Apps admins can plan ahead which additional Google services users can access with their accounts and other aspects of this roll-out. Stay tuned here for further updates in the coming weeks and months, and visit our Help Center for more details.

Posted by Dennis Troper, Product Management Director, Google Apps
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-google-applications-coming-for.html

[G] Rapid wireframe sketching in Google Docs

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Official Google Docs Blog: Rapid wireframe sketching in Google Docs

Guest post: Morten Just is a product manager in Vodafone. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, he spent most of his career as an interaction designer churning out wireframes and diagrams, and also co-founded Imity, a Bluetooth-enabled social network for mobile phones in 2006. On his personal blog he writes mostly about user experience.

When I saw Google drawings on a Twitter update a few weeks ago, I didn't really think about it until I got a feeling I might not have understood a rather complex problem at work. I drew a diagram and asked my colleague to edit it in case I had misunderstood him. It worked out well, we're still using the drawing as a basis for discussion, and it is constantly being refined as we go along. So taking the next step and trying out a wireframe was an obvious decision.

For quite a while I've been wanting a simple and fast way to burst out interface ideas, and then quickly share them with my colleagues in Düsseldorf and London. Since a relatively large portion of a wireframe looks like something I've sketched out before, I figured modifying a template like a list view or a landing page would speed things up.

In fact, I wanted to speed it up to the point where I all I had to do was to add a few words before I had a wireframe.

From the templates I extracted the scroll bars, buttons, and sliders and put them in the gutter outside the drawing's canvas, ready to be duplicated and dragged onto the wireframe.

Here's a generic page displaying product details:


... and a typical mobile phone drill-down of items in groups:


To begin working on a wireframe
  1. Open the template you want to use
  2. Click 'Sign in' in the upper right
  3. Choose file > make a copy
  4. Make your wireframe
Packing it up

When you have several individual wireframes it can be a neat thing to pack them all up into one single document that you can send around, have people print out, or even present in meetings.

Since there's no way to import a drawing into a presentation yet, here's a trick using the web clipboard feature. You'll still be able to edit the imported drawing should you need to.

  1. Go to File > New Presentation. A blank presentation opens in a new window.
  2. Switch back to your drawing and select everything.
  3. Click the web clipboard icon > Copy to web clipboard
  4. Switch back to your presentation and paste your drawing using the web clipboard.
Building the library

I'd love for this to be the beginning of a shared wireframe template repository in Google Docs. For now, I've shared a folder in which I'll add user contributed templates and stencils. Get in touch if you want to contribute.

I hope you'll enjoy the templates and that it will help you actually sketch out your ideas rather than just describe them in words. As Dan Roam said in his keynote at this year's IA Summit, "The person who draws the picture wins."

Links
Posted by: Morten Just, mortenjust.com
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/05/rapid-wireframe-sketching-in-google.html

[G] Webinar: Improving operational efficiency with Google Apps and Smartsheet

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:59 PM PDT

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Webinar: Improving operational efficiency with Google Apps and Smartsheet

Last week, we shared the story of how LiquidConcrete has used Google Apps and Smartsheet, a Google Apps Marketplace app, to move customer and project management to the cloud, and significantly increased the efficiency of their manufacturing operation.

Next Tuesday, May 11, LiquidConcrete and Smartsheet will be joining us for a free webinar to discuss their story. The webinar will focus on extending Google Apps and running more of your business in the cloud with integrated apps from the Google Apps Marketplace. Please join us!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. GMT

Posted by Chris Kelly, Google Apps Marketplace team
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/webinar-improving-operational.html

[G] Translate the real world with Google Goggles

Posted: 06 May 2010 11:09 AM PDT

Official Google Mobile Blog: Translate the real world with Google Goggles

Traveling to another country can be an amazing experience. The opportunity to immerse yourself in a different culture can give you a new perspective. However, it can be hard to fully enjoy the experience if you do not understand the local language. For example, ordering food from a menu you can not read can be an adventure. Today we are introducing a new feature of Google Goggles that will prove useful to travelers and monoglots everywhere: Goggles translation.

Here's how it works:
  • Point your phone at a word or phrase. Use the region of interest button to draw a box around specific words
  • Press the shutter button
  • If Goggles recognizes the text, it will give you the option to translate
  • Press the translate button to select the source and destination languages.


Google Goggles in action (click images to see large version)


The first Goggles translation prototype was unveiled earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and could only recognize German text. Today Goggles can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages. We are hard at work extending our recognition capabilities to other Latin-based languages. Our goal is to eventually read non-Latin languages (such as Chinese, Hindi and Arabic) as well.

Every new release of Google Goggles contains at least one new feature and a large number of improvements to our existing functionality. In addition to translation, Goggles v1.1 features improved barcode recognition, a larger corpus of artwork, recognition of many more products and logos, an improved user interface, and the ability to initiate visual searches using images in your phone's photo gallery.

Computer vision is a hard problem. While we are excited about Goggles v1.1, we know that there are many images that we cannot yet recognize. The Google Goggles team is working on solving the technical challenges required to make computers see. We hope you are as excited as we are about the possibilities of visual search.

Google Goggles v1.1 is available on devices running Android 1.6 and higher. To download, please scan the QR code below or go to the Android Market app on your phone and search for "Google Goggles". See our help center for more information.



Alessandro Bissacco and Avi Flamholz, Software Engineers
URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/05/translate-real-world-with-google.html
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