A picture says a thousand words. So why take the trouble of typing when you are Googling? Take a snap, put it on Google Goggles and let the Google algorithms do the rest.

You are traveling in a foreign land, see something real cool, or unique and want to know more about it. However, the object you see is unique enough to defy description to put together a relevant query. So what do you do?

Well, you will not really feel lost anymore if you are carrying, say a Droid with you. All you need to is go to the Android Market, download the Google Goggles to your Android operated hardware and snap an image. While taking an image, try to fill as much of the screen-space with that image as possible. Then search the web with that image and Google will return you results matching that object.

How does it works? The app sends the image to Google’s datacenters. Signature of objects in the images are created using computer vision algorithms which are compared against other known items in their image recognition databases to find possible matches and relevant result is returned based on available metadata, ranking signals etc. The app also sports a cool video feature.

Google Goggles is still in beta. However it is still very much worth giving it a shot. The app is free and does more than a neat job in with inanimate objects like architectures, logo, bar code, books etc, though not so much on real life objects - yet, that is.