Sometimes, hearing about Google’s search capabilities is enough to freak me out.  Frankly, sometimes, I think hearing about Google’s search capabilities is enough to freak GEORGE ORWELL out. But they carry on and make their search even more powerful, now featuring real-time camera shot searching.

It’s a real-time search display known simply as “latest”, in which a snapshot of the most recent possible application appears alongside original search results.  It’s also going to get a mobile equivalent optimized for Android and the iPhone.

This may well be one of the scariest uses of camera technology that I’ve seen in quite some time.  I thought red light cameras were bad–having camera shot-grade updates flash across your Google can be a scary thing.  Worse yet, what if it’s not flashing across YOUR Google, but around someone else’s?

You want people able to access a photo of your address?  Your children, maybe?  There are a lot of unsettling ramifications to Google’s “latest”, and not a whole lot of assurances as to protection or privacy.  It’s a scary thing, progress…let’s just hope, for our sakes, it’s not as scary as it could be.

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