Google Goggles, the smartphone app that recognizes and searches items when you photograph them with your phone, is now teamed with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Visitors to the museum can now use Google Goggles to learn more about the art in the museum, a walking tour provided every time a visitor uses Google Goggles on a piece of artwork. The app provides audio and text of commentary, which the Google Blog says is from “artists, curators, conservators or the works of art themselves.” While hearing the characters in a painting talk isn’t everyone’s idea of a museum trip, the artist and curator commentaries will surely be a popular option.

The Google Goggles Lab have put together a video demo above that showcases how the Google artificial intelligence product can solve Sudoku puzzles. Google Goggles lets you input numbers in a Sudoku puzzle and it will go through millions of combinations to help you find out what the answers are. The Sudoku solving feature in Google Goggles works on the Android and iPhone version. “With the new Android version of Google Goggles, scanning barcodes is much faster. Open Goggles and hover over the barcode or QR code. Within a second the phone gently vibrates and presents results, without requiring a button press. Simply tap on the result to read product reviews, check in-store availability and compare prices.” [Google Blog]

Google has released Google Goggles for the iPhone. It wasn’t too long ago that Google released Google Goggles on Android. Google Goggles allows you to conduct searches by taking pictures. For example, if you take a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, Google Goggles will do a search on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Augmented reality service Google Goggles now has translation features. The translation feature will allow users to read five Latin-based languages using the smartphone camera and translate it from English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish into many more different languages. Google Goggles version 1.1 is available for smartphones running the operating system Android 1.6 and above on the Android Market. [ReadWriteWeb]