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It’s become common knowledge that Google is the top search engine out there, using both text and voice search to give users information on the words they type in or speak, and YouTube leads in video search where search queries are also typed to get video results. It seems impossible to compete with these services, except if you change the way search works altogether.

That is exactly what CamFind has done: It is the first successful visual search engine that can photograph, identify, and provide information on any object. The app aims to supply the fastest and most precise visual search engine on mobile platforms.

CamFind first appeared in the Apple App Store on April 7, 2013. It got tons of positive reviews and reached over a million downloads in less than 6 months after launch, and it recently became available for Android users.

"We're finally on Android," said Dominik Mazur, CEO and co-founder of Image Searcher, Inc. "Ever since the launch of CamFind on iOS we have seen a strong demand and plenty of requests from Android users to release this visual search app on the Android operating system so we're excited to make it available and are thankful for the anticipation."

CamFind Uses and Features

There are tons of example pictures you can take and do a search on! You can try taking pictures of famous landmarks to learn more about them, or a movie flyer to watch the trailer of the movie and find reviews, take a pic of a restaurant’s logo for reviews and the menu.

The app also uses location intelligence. Let's say you take a picture of a coffee mug, it will suggest coffee shops near you. If I find a product I like but find it too expensive, I can use CamFind to find cheaper alternatives.

Sometimes it won’t recognize the exact details of the object you take a picture from. I tried taking the picture of 100,000 Lebanese Pounds, while it didn’t recognize the origin of the bill; it did identify it as a bank-note, and showed me similar bills and information on bank notes. While the app may not have fully matured just yet, it still impressed me with its ability of analyzing and understanding pictures, more so than Google Goggles did.

There are a few more features such as: the QR code scanner, the bar code scanner, social media integration, and the conventional search using either your voice or text.

So forget about typing queries into your browser to get information! instead use CamFind to take a picture of any object, product, or landmark and receive instant search results with related pictures!