Google Goggles could seen be getting a few enhancements thanks to a visual search company named Plink. The company has announced that Google has acquired it and that it will now focus its future development efforts on Google’s own visual search app. For whose of you who aren’t familiar with it, Plink is the UK-based company behind the PlinkArt Android app, which lets you simply take a photo of a painting and then receive all the pertinent information about it. It is the same concept behind Google Goggles but it seems that Plink will be working on making that functionality even better, and help out on other types of visual searches as well. Of course, this means that the PlinkArt app itself will cease to exist in time but for now, it will remain functional in its current incarnation for the time being.
Since January 2010, Google has bought the Microsoft Word online component
DocVerse, a photo-editing site Picnik, email app maker,
reMail, and a social search company Aardvark, a video service company
Episodic, and now Plink will be joining its ranks. Which company will Google acquire next?
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