Google Acquires Visual Search Company Plink

on 04/12/2010 09:13 PDT

Google has just bolstered its search prowess by acquiring Plink, a U.K. based visual search company that won $100,000 in the Android Developer Challenge last December. The company’s claim to fame is PlinkArt, an Android app that allows users to identify paintings and artworks by just snapping a picture from your phone’s camera. Plink’s founders, Mark Cummins and James Philbin, will both be joining the Google Goggles team in order to integrate Plink’s functionality and their image search expertise into Goggles. Have you used Goggles on your Android device before, and do you think it needs a lot of improvements?

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