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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Photo Hosting Site Flickr Improves Search Result Pages

One of the latest search engine trends seems to be search controls for refining searches. Google added some advanced search controls not long ago to Google Search and Google Image Search. Now the photo hosting site Flickr redesigns the search results page to provide users with additional information and controls.
The Flickr Search results now display [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Google Adds Quick Search Options To Google Image Search

Google introduced a new feature to Google Search in last month that would allow users to quickly change several important factors of the search without having to configure them in advanced options or using a plugin or add-on to do so. The new features are available by clicking on the options link in the Google [...]

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Categories: Google, Search Engines

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Google Image Relinker

Google 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 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 21st, 2009
  • Comments: 6

TinEye Reverse Image Search Engine

Reverse image search refers to the concept of searching for occurrences of a specific image on the Internet. The usual image search engines let users enter a search term which gets searched in their database. They then display images that are related to that search term in the results. Reverse Image Search on the other [...]

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Categories: Search Engines

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Desktop Image Search

Ginipic (via Instant Fundas) is a desktop image search application that provides an easy to use interface to search for images on various websites and even local pictures.The image search supports sites like Flickr, Facebook, Deviant Art, SmugMug, Photobucket or Google, Live Search and Yahoo. The interface can be docked to the side of the [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 23rd, 2008
  • Comments: None

Pixolu Semantic Image Search

Pixolu is an academic reasearch project on semantic image search. It does increase the quality of the search results by asking the user to refine the first batch of results and using the selected pictures to discover images that are closely related to them. The process is made up of three steps. The user enters [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

Image searching that works by TinEye

What Google has done for text search, TinEye is trying to achieve with image search. Instead of typing in keywords to find images, you can upload an image, or copy a link to an image and you will be presented with all the occurrences of that image on the net. At first you will see [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Search Engines

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