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Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:20 pm
by knotquiteawake
The Google Goggles app for smart phones is awesome. Take a picture of anything and it instantly finds other similar images on the internet. I took a picture of my border patrol ballcap and it instantly found where I can buy more. I took a picture of my keyboard and it found the same model for sale.
Then I took a picture of my seecamp .32 and it found nothing, I took a picture of my taurus .38spec snub revolver and it found nothing... This was with both of them on a white background.
Very interesting. I know they had made changes to google shopping but I didn't think it would apply to the google goggles too.
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:14 pm
by DocV
I took a picture of my coffee cup and got a picture of a dog, a skateboard and a toaster oven.
Apparently, Google is also anti-caffene.
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:17 pm
by knotquiteawake
yeah, I just took a picture of the shotgun and it also said it couldn't identify what it was
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:23 pm
by JJVP
It did not recognized a bottle of diet Pepsi, so it must be a Coke sponsored app.
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:42 pm
by knotquiteawake
Maybe it just is a lot less intelligent than i gave it credit for initially! It didn't even recognize my diet coke the first couple times. Oh well.
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:20 pm
by comp73
This doesn't surprise me. Google has already admitted that they are censoring searches when it comes to firearms and firearms related merchandise.
This is the reason I now use Bing.
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:24 pm
by 74novaman
knotquiteawake wrote:Maybe it just is a lot less intelligent than i gave it credit for initially! It didn't even recognize my diet coke the first couple times. Oh well.
From Heinleins "Logic of Empire" short story:
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity"
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:27 pm
by knotquiteawake
74novaman wrote:knotquiteawake wrote:Maybe it just is a lot less intelligent than i gave it credit for initially! It didn't even recognize my diet coke the first couple times. Oh well.
From Heinleins "Logic of Empire" short story:
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity"
I believe you are correct sir!
Re: Google Goggles Anti-Gun
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:45 pm
by jmorris
comp73 wrote:This doesn't surprise me. Google has already admitted that they are censoring searches when it comes to firearms and firearms related merchandise.
This is the reason I now use Bing.
I did a search for "high power" "double 9" on Google earlier tonight and it came up with all the usual auction sites. I would think that if it was going to censor anything it'd be by web site.
Just tried duckduckgo and bing and neither gave me good hits.