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"Google is working on Google Visual Search, a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location from their Android-powered smartphone and trigger a Google search that pulls up information associated with the image. The search engine revealed its plans on CNBC's "Inside the Mind of Google," segment Dec. 3. Pairing digital ads, possibly from Google's AdMob acquisition, is a natural way to make money from visual mobile searches. Many people take pictures from their increasingly improving smartphone cameras daily, but imagine if those users could leverage the images as search tools instead of simply fun pictures to look at."

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Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. It is part of Google Maps for mobile and is available for phones with Android 2.0.

Phone makers should be happy: the worldwide market is enjoying strong growth in sales of phones and a boom in smartphone sales, which grew by almost 50% compared to the recession-hit first quarter last year