Google has launched a very new Google Goggles visual search tool for its Android mobile phones that let people search for more information about a famous landmark or art work just by taking a photo of that object.

Google Goggles now supports searching based on photos for books, logos, contact info, artwork, DVDs, landmarks, businesses, barcodes, products, and plain text. The operation goes like, when an image is captured; Google chops it up into objects based signatures which will then be compared against all the items that it could find in its database. You will get the results within seconds. The company says that it has the power to recognize millions of places and objects.

You may get some results even before snapping a photo with the seamless integration of GPS and compass functionality. Goggles uses data from GPS of the phone and compass to deliver live improved-reality results as well.

Google Goggles’ visual search has headed for Chrome browser too. Google’s team is working to have some browser extensions by which one can just drag and drop a web image on to an input box in the toolbar to have a search on it.

Google Goggles is now available only for phones’ running Google’s Android OS, but then Google has plans to release other versions too. The service can be extended to browsers as well with a web browser interface. Google Chrome’s new beta version adds support for extensions, though at this moment in time, with some confinements on user interface options for programmers.