SOA example: google goggles
Monday, March 08, 2010
11:06 AM
SOA example: google goggles
You take a picture of something with your phone. 
Google responds with how to buy it. 
How does this work? 
You tell goggles a search domain, e.g., CD album covers, novels, etc.
Your phone invokes an image search service in that domain, based upon images of albums, for the album's ISBN. This is a compute-intensive search.
Search service returns the album's ISBN, which your phone then looks up on Amazon Marketplace (another service). 
Result is that you're taken to the Amazon product page. 