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Google Swirl

boo_radley — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:27:22 -0800

Google Swirl is a new Google Labs experiment that lets a user search through images in a "visual and semantic" way, allowing users to search through radiating treeviews of conceptually related images. (requires flash)

Where's my image?

monospace — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:30:35 -0800

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Every day TinEye's spiders crawl the web for additional images. Using sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for each one and adds it to the index. When you want to find out where an image is being used on the web, you submit it to TinEye. The attributes of the image are analyzed instantly, and its fingerprint is compared to the fingerprint of every single image in the TinEye search index. The result? A detailed list of any websites using that image, worldwide.

Steve Fossett Missing: Help find him by searching satellite imagery

nthdegx — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:00:13 -0800

Steve Fossett Missing: Help find him by searching satellite imagery

Victoria & Albert Image Search

taz — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:32:55 -0800

*Quite too Utterly Utter!* We all know about the Victoria & Albert Museum site, but did you know about the online V&A Access to Images? I didn't, and I've just spent a couple of happy hours poring over it. Type in any search term, and you are likely to get some interesting results. "Woodblock", for example, returns 16 pages, and "fairytale" nets you three pages of interesting 19th century marionettes. Here's somthing amusing to kick you off...

Toogle

DBAPaul — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:42:19 -0800

Toogle Google image search represented in ASCII. [via Hot Links]