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Google Adding Subject Sorting To Image Search

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:07:35 +0000

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced that this week they are rolling out the ability to sort pictures based on related subjects. In the screenshot above, you will notice that when you search for a general term like “london,” then Google Images will find & sort results for “london eye,” “london big ben,” “london bridge,” and “london at night.” This feature will be activated when clicking on “Sort by subject” in the left-hand panel.
Google the Sort by Subject functionality through the combination of the Google Similar Images and Google Image Swirl features being incubated in Google Labs.

Google Changes The Design Of Google Images Search

Akshay Jetli — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:33:45 +0000

In 2001, Google launched a revolutionary addition to its search engine: Google Images. At the time, a collection of 250 million images with a single search engine was ground breaking. Google now has an index of over 10 billion images.

Due in part to the growing number of images in Google’s index, the company is planning on changing Google Images. Some of these changes include:

-Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. This allows for more images and less text.
-Instant scrolling between pages which allows for more images to be seen with only scrolling. Up to 1,000 images will be added per scrolling page, with individual pages being numbered.
-Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.
-A hover pane that appears when you put your mouse over a thumbnail image, giving a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”

These updates will be added to Google soon and it shows that the search engine company is continuing to evolve. Google’s Product Manager Nate Smith said “We hope they not only make it easier to search for images, but also contribute to a better aesthetic experience. We see images as a major source of inspiration, a way of connecting the world—aand their growth is showing no signs of slowing down.”

[Google Blog]

Google Labs Introduces Similar Images and News Timeline, Launches GoogleLabs.com

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:25:53 +0000

Chuck Rosenberg, Andy Hertzfeld, and Michael Cohen have discussed the new features that are coming out of Google Labs this week. Google Labs is a place where Google employees can design, research, and brainstorm ideas for the company to launch as part of the 20% free time at the company. Out of Google Labs, ideas such as Google Maps, iGoogle, and Google News has been introduced. The two newest services to arrive in Google Labs are Similar Images and Google News Timeline.

Similar Images is a feature where Google Images uses a visual similarity engine to find images that are related to each other. The reasoning behind creating this feature is to solve the problem of finding the right image if you can’t describe it in words.

Google News Timeline chronologically organizes results on Google News. Users can navigate the news by using the time scale on days, weeks, years, months, years, or decades.

In order to keep up with all of the ideas that Google engineers are coming up with, the company launched Googlelabs.com. The new website also centralizes all of the Labs information that relate to GMail, Google News, Google Office, Google Code, etc.