Google has buy mobile visual explore startup Plink for a secret sum, the UK-based corporation has been just proclaimed on its blog and Twitter account.

The company’s two creator, PhD students Mark Cummins and James Phil bin will labor on Google Goggles and help improve the search giant’s visual search applications.

Plink is the comparatively vague company behind PlinkArt, a visual detection app for Android that is capable of identify artworks and picture just by examining imagery.
Users can allocate those photos with friends and also buy poster adaptation after clacking from side to side. Plink asserts the Android app, which you can find here, was downloaded more than 50,000 times in the month following its original released.

Plink says they will immediately stop developing new features for PinkArt:
“Nothing is changing for now, and PlinkArt will continue to work as usual. In future however, we’ll be shifting our development efforts towards Google Goggles, so you’ll see new functionality appearing there.”

Back in December 2009, Plink was declared the winner of the second Android Developer Challenge in the schooling/orientation grouping. The conquest brought home $100,000 for the developers, and eventually an attainment tender.

[Via Techcrunch]