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Google Image Search Gets a Redesign and New Search Ads
With more than 10 billion images indexed, Google Image Search has become the visual reference source to beat. Google's VP Marissa Mayer took the stage at a press conference today to announce the company's latest image search redesign. In November 2009, ReadWriteWeb covered the introduction of Image Swirl but since then little news has come from the search giant. This morning though, rather than offering up another Swirl-like announcement, the company released a significantly new iteration of its current interface alongside the launch of Google Image Search Ads.
Yahoo Image Search: Now With Creative Commons
Yahoo Image Search got a nice update today that allows users to filter search results by Creative Commons (CC) license.
For now, this search only includes CC-licensed images from Flickr, Yahoo's own photo sharing service. The Yahoo Image Search interface actually turns out to be a very nice gateway to the CC-licensed image collection on Flickr, especially because the previews update immediately after you change a filter setting.
New From Google Labs: Similar Images and Google News Timeline
Google released two new labs projects today: Similar Images and Google News Timeline. Similar Images, as the name implies, allows you to restrict image searches to pictures that are similar to a source picture while Google News Timeline presents a new interface for searching Google News. Google Labs has now also moved to its own Googlelabs.com domain and sports a new interface.
Google Image Search Gets More Specific
Google Image Search remains one of the most comprehensive imagery resources available. But the sheer amount of imagery that the site indexes creates a problem. More of than not, Google Image Search gets you close to what you're seeking, but it doesn't really help you find exactly what you're looking for.
Now, Google is working to fix that with new filtering options.
Visualize Your Bookmarks With Tidy Favorites
Web 2.0 applications like delicious, diigo, Ma.gnolia, and others changed bookmarking forever. What used to be a private activity isolated to your computer became a social experience where friends could easily share, search, blog, and tag each other's favorite links. But personal, private bookmarking never really went away because, face it, there are some links that don't need to be shared. For those links, a service called Tidy Favorites delivers an innovative new way to work with your bookmarks using an intuitive visual search engine and dashboard.
Verboten: Google Loses German Copyright Cases Over Thumbnails
Today, a regional court in Germany ruled that Google is violating German copyright law by displaying thumbnail previews of copyrighted images. German photographer Michael Bernhard and cartoonist Thomas Horn had sued Google and demanded that their images be removed from Google's index. According to the judge at Hamburg's regional court, "no new work is created" by displaying thumbnails.
Search Flickr Images by Color With the Multicolr Search Lab
Flickr, a popular photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo!, has a ton images available for browsing through. You can search for photos in a multitude of ways including by user, tags, title keywords, and a few more. However, it's a lot tougher to search for images by colors and not many services get it right the first time around. The Multicolr Search Lab is a fantastic tool that does an excellent job of finding great images based on the colors you select.
PicLens: Now With Amazon Integration and YouTube Videos
Cooliris' PicLens is, without a doubt, one of the prettiest browser add-ons currently available. When we first reviewed it in February, Josh Catone called it 'nifty' and 'gorgeous.' Both of these adjectives still fully apply to PicLens, but since then, the company has added a large number of new features. These include a stronger emphasis on displaying videos and integration with Amazon, as well as support for a few more photo sharing sites.
Compfight: The Perfect Flickr Image Search Tool
Searching around for an image for a blog post is one of the most frustrating procedures of blogging. It could take hours to find that perfect image. These are hours, minutes, and seconds that most of us would rather not waste. Normally, one might head to Google Image Search, but there can be legal issues to using it. Instead, why not try out Flickr image search tool Compfight.
You Play a Game, Computers Get Smarter, AI Starts to Work
Last week a new site called Gwap was launched by Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. The site offers an array of multi-player games that have a benefit beyond just that of momentary distraction or amusement. These games are helping improve image and audio searches, teaching computers to see, and enhancing AI. However, all that won't matter to the players because, as it turns out, these games are actually fun.
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