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NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it is collaborating with Google to allow users to search the Web via pictures they take on their mobile phones, to increase access to information online about its encyclopedic collections. Beginning this week, image-based searches on Google Goggles for works of art in the Met’s collections—whether from reproductions in books, posters, or postcards, for example, or in the galleries themselves—will produce direct links to extensive information about works of art on metmuseum.org, the Museum’s website. Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, said: “The Met’s collaboration with Google presents a unique opportunity to unite image-based searches of the Met’s collections with the scholarship and rich interpretive materials we make available online about our works of art. Anyone with a smartphone who is intere read full article
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