Okay Google: Take A Photo/Video Comes To Google Mobile Search

Google announced on Google+ that you can now ask your Android phone to take a photo or a video by saying, “Ok Google,” then “take a photo” or “take a video.” This will launch the Android camera app in the photo or video mode so you can quickly take a photo. I should note that […]

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google-voice-searchGoogle announced on Google+ that you can now ask your Android phone to take a photo or a video by saying, “Ok Google,” then “take a photo” or “take a video.”

This will launch the Android camera app in the photo or video mode so you can quickly take a photo. I should note that there are other variations of the “take a photo” that work, such as “shoot a” and “take a picture” and so on. Google Glass has supported this since it launched, so it makes sense to extend this to Android devices.

Where this may come in handy for search is in the future, if Google extends Google Search mobile to handle, “scan OCR code” or “find products similar to…” and so forth.

Here is a picture of the new feature:

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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