Google improves search results with image strips
Google has made changes to its search. You can now see a strip of images from the site you intend to visit. Google believes this will help determine the relevance of the sites that come up in search results Sites with images feature Having more information upfront can be helpful in choosing the best webpages [...]
Nachofoto shows how search-results differ from Google and others
Nachofoto, the company that introduced itself in April 2010 has posted a case-study showcasing how its search results differ from other search engines. It uses a search for the term iPad and compares results. Nachofoto searchresults differ throughout the developments of the day, compared to static and generic search results on other sites. A case [...]
Google goggles image recognition update
When I reported on Google Goggles a few weeks ago it was clear that this is a great application for visual search. The application, which is still in Google labs, uses the technology to recognise objects that are recorded by the inbuilt camera of a mobile phone. After analyizing the picture it uses the various [...]
Latest Google image search innovation
Recently a Google representative visited the PACA 2009 conference to talk about Visual search with Imense. Although Google has watched Imense carefully it had not had much contact with the Stock Photography industry. In the meantime it has been gradually improving its image search capabilies. First it launched an improved version of their visual search [...]
Bing to add Wolfram | Alpha to results
Wolfram | Alpha may look like a regular search engine, but it’s not. It it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. This is called a computational search engine. It has just announced it will be integrated in Microsoft’s Bing search engine. I have added [...]
8 Image search engines that don’t license images
In our article about Imense we touched on their Picture search service that uses visual search technology to find images from various libraries. Imense serves up the images but does not take part in the licensing. Instead it refers clients to the content owners who can then license the images. There are a number of other [...]
Google and Imense on visual search at PACA 2009
In her recent keynote speech at the PACA conference Maria Kessler taled about looking at new technologies and other industries. At the same conference Robert Henson of Blend images facilitated a seminar about semantic search. The seminar involved Google and Imense and looked at the various innovations in visual search and how they impact the industry. [...]
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