gHacks technology news » google image http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Google Image Swirl http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/18/google-image-swirl/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/18/google-image-swirl/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=18634 Google Image search is a very comprehensive search engine to find photos and all kinds of images that have been posted publicly on the Internet. It does offer a few sorting and filtering options and can even find related images to one of the selected images on the results pages. Google Image Swirl takes this concept a step further by solely concentrating on the related images concept. It is currently an experimental service over at Google Labs.

Google Image Swirl starts of like any other Google Image search. The user enters a search phrase in the search form on the page. The script will then display possible matches for that entered search phrase. So far so identical to the standard Google Image search engine.

Differences begin to appear after the selection of one of the results.

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Google Image Swirl will display the image and related images in the same interface instead of loading the website that is containing the image. Related images are placed around the selected image with lines showing their relation. Even better is the fact that second tier relations are shown as well on the page. A click on the central image will load that image in the website that is was published on.

It is however also possible to click on one of the related images to navigate further into that path. This can be a very interesting way of exploring images about a specific subject. Google Image Swirl is an experimental service that is open to all users over at Google Labs.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/18/google-image-swirl/feed/ 1 Google Image Relinker http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/25/google-image-relinker/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/25/google-image-relinker/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:26:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14746 google imagesGoogle Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on the results pages. Additional information like the domain name the image was posted on or the size of the image are displayed on the result pages as well. Filters allow the user to find images that match certain criteria like resolutions or colors.

One aspect of Google Image Search that is bugging many users is that it does not link directly to the image but to a Google page that displays the website containing the image in a frame. This means that users need to click on the image to be taken to the framed page where they can either scroll until they find the image or click on the image that is displayed on top to display the full sized image.

The Google Image Relinker userscript changes this default behavior by linking directly to the images in the Google Image search results pages. The developer has confirmed that the script works in Firefox, Opera and Seamonkey with the possibility that it will work in other web browsers that support userscripts (Google Chrome, Safari) as well.

The script basically safes time by allowing the user to view the image directly from the search result pages. A link to the framed version (which is the default way) is provided as well. Google Image Relinker is an interesting userscript for those users who work with the Google Image Search engine regularly.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/25/google-image-relinker/feed/ 3 Google Image Wallpaper Application http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/27/google-image-wallpaper-application/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/27/google-image-wallpaper-application/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:52:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/27/google-image-wallpaper-application/ I found a pretty small and useful open source application that pulls images from Google images in a given interval and displays them as the wallpaper on the pc the application is running. Once unrared you can run the application right from that location without installation; you will see a small icon in your system tray if the application is running. Right-click the icon and select options.

Add some keywords that should be used to search for new images, select if you want surfer friendly images only and define the change rate in minutes. You can try it out immediately by right-clicking the icon again and selecting Update Now. This takes a few seconds but the wallpaper should change into a random image that was pulled from Google. The software will only search for high quality images that fit nicely on most screens.

I suggest you add at least 5-10 keywords to receive enough images to avoid repetition. The application pulls the images only from the first page of results and picks a random image from that page which means you have a chance of 1 in 18 that the same picture will be picked again as the wallpaper.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/09/27/google-image-wallpaper-application/feed/ 3 Grab Images from Google Image Search http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/22/grab-images-from-google-image-search/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/22/grab-images-from-google-image-search/#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:25:06 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/22/grab-images-from-google-image-search/ I bet you all know the google image search service which displays only thumbails of pictures that are related to your search terms. You load the full sized image by clicking on one of the thumbnails and may save that one manually to your hard drive. This process is taking a long time if you for example would like to save the first 100 results because they look all so nice..

An alternative to the manual process is using a freeware application like googlegrab which automatically saves the full size images to a newly created folder that is named after the search terms. The program is pretty straight forward. Enter a search term and click search. Googlegrab does everything else. It creates a folder, saves all images to that folder.

You can set some options as well. First, you can limit the downloads to x pictures, the default is 1000. Then you can opt ot download only pictures of a certain size, you can turn downloads for five sizes on or off. (XXL, XL, L, M and S). Then you can turn off child save searches which is probably a good idea and see a preview of the current image.

Googlegrab is available for PC and Mac, great tool.

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