Google Docs isn't the only Google product benefitting from acquisitions lately. It looks as if Google Goggles (and perhaps eventually Google's search) will soon integrate the capabilities of Plink, a visual search engine that identifies user-snapped photos of artwork.

Plink has only been available to the public for four months, but it's clear that its capabilities line up with Google's goal for Goggles. Google Goggles is a project (integrated into an Android app) that inputs user-uploaded photos of all manner of things—from landmarks to books to wine bottles and more—and identifies them along with more information. This includes the name of the object or product, applicable prices, and various search results associated with those pieces.

Goggles already has an "Artwork" category, but Plink's technology will undoubtedly help improve Google's visual search offerings across the board. "We’re looking forward to helping the Goggles team build a visual search engine that works not just for paintings or book covers, but for everything you see around you," reads a post on Plink's blog. Plink already offers an application on the Android Market and claims that the current app will continue to work, but that future development efforts will go towards Goggles.

This is likely just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Google's buying spree, too. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in September that the company hopes to acquire one small company per month in the aftermath of the recession. The Plink acquisition—Google's first in the UK—represents one in a string of many that will continue to be announced in the coming months. We hope that some of Google's plans for Plink (and Goggles) will involve spreading the love to its Web search engine and other, non-Android devices.