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Google has recently made for shopping and as expected has brought something with it. The search engine giant acquired Plink, a British company developing the hand behind the mobile visual search engine PlinkArt. As might be expected, the Californians are using this latest acquisition to strengthen one of his own invention is Google cool glasses.

PlinkArt is an Android application that requires the user to provide an image of painting as input using the phone's camera and in return you provide information to help you identify the piece of art and other interesting facts.

Google does not intend to use this identifing for painting or book covers only. Instead it is looking for greater things in the form of a visual search engine as revealed by the official blog of Plink:

Google has already shown he is serious about investing in this space with Google goggles, and the team Plink can take our algorithms to Google ladder was too exciting to pass up ... We look forward to helping the team build a spectacle visual search engine that works not only for paintings or book covers, but everything you see around you.