My love for Google grows with each passing day. If there is a service they offer, I probably use it. From GMail to Maps to just their original search, I’d pay a good hundred dollars a year just to use them, but they’re nice enough (and smart enough) to give them up for free.

Today Google released their much anticipated update for the Google app on the iPhone to include Google Goggles. This little known service basically provides a way to search with images, instead of text. It’s been long available for the android market, but has just now been released to iPhone users.

The Goggles app not only recognizes obvious things, such as logos and trademarks, but not so obvious stuff, such as text and barcodes. For example, the scan of a book will bring up the book itself as a product (allowing you to purchase), the writing on the cover as text (allowing yo to translate or save), as well related websites from a search. Doing a business card does the same, even going so far as to allow you to save the contact information to your phone or call the number directly. You can scan a text page and translate the text, all without having to type in a word. The possibilities are pretty limitless.

They’re expanding the service slowly, to allow for more creative search options; people, plants, etc. It’s still a great feature, and for the price, you really can’t beat it.