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Program PlinkArt «learns" photographed using the phone works of art, then you can find information about the work, the artist and found to share with friends. Last year, the search tool from Google won a prize in the amount of $ 100,000 and was recommended as the best additions to the family of applications, mobile phones Google Android.

Today it became known that the inventors PlinkArt - doctoral students at Oxford University, Mark Cummins (Mark Cummins) and James Philbin (James Philbin), engaged in a group of mobile robotics and visual geometry of the Faculty of Engineering - had sold his creation to Google for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition is part of a new strategy for the Internet search giant - to buy at least one technological idea every month.

Now the creators PlinkArt will work on a new project Google Goggles, as the company plans to invest in this event a lot of effort. Plink is a kind of visual search engine - it allows you to find information relating to the image in question. The plans to create a system that will recognize all that you see around you and allow mobile users to perform searches on the Internet with pictures, not words.

Since launching the application in just one month of service users has reached 50 000, developers have received many positive responses, as well as suggestions to further work in this direction. On the official blog PlinkArt creators said: "For the present our users did not change. PlinkArt-will still be available for download and work. However, we will no longer update the application and instead focus our efforts on the development of visual search service on Google Goggles, the future is where you can enjoy the new features. "