they probably figured that they'd save 98% of their server load just by caching a page full of boobs & serving that up instead of performing an actual search on demand. posted by UbuRoivas at 10:19 PM on April 22 [1 favorite]
There's been a bunch of tasks on the Amazon Mechanical Turk that required picking out similar objects in google image search related to whatever subject was at hand...just random things. Off hand, I can remember doing a searches for sprockets, closets, and lighters. I wondered what it was all for and it looks like this could be it. posted by MaryDellamorte at 10:34 PM on April 22
This is amazing for shoe shopping. posted by toni_jean at 10:47 PM on April 22
Pretty cool, but they need to exclude results that don't return any similar images. posted by Rhaomi at 10:55 PM on April 22
Kind of like tineye, but more complex image search options are awesome. posted by graventy at 11:00 PM on April 22
Audio and visual parsing are very interesting problems and continue to affect the way we use computers and the internet. Plus, if I search for PumaSwede, I wanna see PumaSwede! posted by christhelongtimelurker at 11:23 PM on April 22
Maybe that photo of the girl came from some anomaly - I notice photos of pig statues and leering alpacas on the page that comes up when I click on her photo. And I've seen people who look way more pig-like that she does. Odd. posted by queensissy at 11:57 PM on April 22
I think tineye produces better results, as they do context agnostic searches that actually match line art in completely different colors.
The girl that shows up in the "pig" list occurs not because of image closeness, but the word "pig" is in the text directly above her photo on her original page ("there was a pig statue across the street").
If you choose an image that is only tangentially related to the search term (e.g. atom using a computer chip on a fingertip) the algorithm picks some similar images and then flops over into using contextual text-based page cues, which generates a bunch of nonsense (e.g. the DC comics character "The atom"). posted by benzenedream at 12:05 AM on April 23
Based on misreading the title of this thread I looked up Greta Garbo and found it mildly interesting that Google deemed Scarlett Johansson similar to Garbo. posted by Kattullus at 12:06 AM on April 23
My mind instantly turns to the pornographic applications of this feature.
The "Evening Gown" search that they feature on their front page is a great example of how this can work. Within a few clicks you can get a page of pictures showing a style you are interested in in a colour of your choice.
As with tineye this is probably also a great tool for people looking for copyright violations. posted by rongorongo at 12:53 AM on April 23
There's something very wrong when technology makes me look at these coffee whores. posted by twoleftfeet at 1:11 AM on April 23
We use Tineye here for copyright checks, but this is useful for grabbing design inspiration - more like *that* please... posted by n3rt at 1:18 AM on April 23
I searched for myself and the first search results were an egg and a pear. I'm going on a diet. posted by MuffinMan at 1:19 AM on April 23 [1 favorite]
Those houses are similar in the way that they are, indeed, houses. posted by gman at 5:47 AM on April 23
This is amazing for shoe shopping.
I used to work for a software company that dealt with comparison shopping engines. One of the sites we worked with had this cool idea (click "Visual Search" under a product). Neat. posted by freecellwizard at 5:49 AM on April 23
Those houses are similar in the way that they are, indeed, houses.
Scratch that. They're not even all houses. posted by gman at 5:52 AM on April 23
there's a page full of boobs now? posted by mattoxic at 5:52 AM on April 23
I searched for myself and the first search results were an egg and a pear. I'm going on a diet.
posted by MuffinMan at 4:19 AM on April 23 [1 favorite +] [!]
Muffinman, it's the muffins, man. posted by milarepa at 6:03 AM on April 23
It's weird. None of these look similar. posted by gman at 6:22 AM on April 23
(Disclosure: I work for Live Search, but not image search). posted by wfitzgerald at 6:34 AM on April 23
Adam_S: That is quite possibly the best thing I have ever seen and may go so far as to justify the existence of Livejournal. Okay, maybe not, but still a thousand kinds of awesome. posted by The Bellman at 6:42 AM on April 23
Adam_S's Frog/Bale link deserves a post of its own. Incredible. posted by brain_drain at 7:36 AM on April 23 [1 favorite]
but...snowflakes are ALL special.... posted by HuronBob at 7:49 AM on April 23
Huh. Typing in "abstract" yielded results a lot more interesting than I expected it to.
Each image seems to kick back a pretty good sampling of the represented style, not the hilarious failure that I was kind of anticipating. posted by quin at 8:58 AM on April 23
God, I hate that site. It has exactly one purpose and completely fails at it. See, right now it says the site is down, but it works for me. It's returned false positives and false negatives many times in the past, too. There have even been times where I've tested a well-known site and it said "Huh? That doesn't look like a site on the Interwho." It's useless -- and yet people still point to it as a useful tool. posted by Rhaomi at 5:22 AM on April 24
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