Are You Ready For Google Goggles Yet?

I just ran across the following page and YouTube on a upcoming Google service currently available within areas of California (cities most likely near Google's headquarters) entitled Google Goggles:

http://bit.ly/drt1yz

The service is a visual search based upon using the camera within a smartphone. Having both a camera and camcorder (to some degrees) are among the largest quantum leaps for new smartphone owners like myself.

One simply cannot imagine until you actually begin using a camera on a regular basis how many times and ways photos can be used to complement simple eyesight in a technological world.

Within the video on the page, Google Goggles had a 50% success rate and I imagine that the percentage would rapidly increase if other viewers would be able to add their own suggestions and links to what an item may be in a way that I would describe as a Yahoo! Visual Delicious:)

Seeing that the service is initially available for Android devices, it is not too hard to foresee that Google Goggles will be available on the iPhone at some point in time.

There are so many mobile developments to combine the digital and analog worlds together that I am wondering when will Microsoft ever decide to get into the game.

After talking with a diehard Microsoft friend tonight, it seems hard to imagine that the company that made a huge pivot onto the internet can realistically sit this dance out for long.

As long as iTunes and the App Store are the golden handcuffs, Google Goggles and other services in the mobile digital world will certainly continue to require touching the Apple base before getting in a position to score.

Peace!