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Google Similar Images First Look

• dmix 18y ago
  Looks like Idee from Toronto has some competition for http://tineye.com http://tineye.com Its never good to have Google enter your space.
  • peregrine 18y ago
    Well at least you know its a good idea then, and its the logical next step for Google so Idee should have expected it.
• mitko 18y ago
  This is very nice feature. Yet, I tried it and it doesn't work for all pictures yet.
• quoderat 18y ago
  Now is the part where we start training the AI that we don't know we're training.
  • jodrellblank 18y ago
    Only now? What about GMail and how they allow themselves to 'automatically' cruch through it? Google Voice and how it transcribes your voicemails? Google Translate which is trained on everything we put on the net...
  • ntoshev 18y ago
    Any sufficiently advanced computation is indistinguishable from intelligence. --Arthur Clark, paraphrased
• bdr 18y ago
  Peter Norvig's talk at startup School 2008 (working link anyone?) suggests how they might have been using this technology internally.
  • rw 18y ago
    So, how might they have been using it internally?
    • bdr 18y ago
      For regular Image Search. Among images matching the search query, those central in the image-similarity graph are probably more relevant.
• physcab 18y ago
  I wonder how popular this feature will actually get. From an AI standpoint, its pretty cool. But personally I haven't run into very many instances where if I search for some image, I find it, and now I want another one that looks just like it.
  • jmtulloss 18y ago
    I don't think that's the use case. I think it's meant for when you don't find the image you're looking for, but find one that's close, or at least in the same ballpark. Then you can tell Google to find images that are close and it might find exactly the image you're looking for. I personally think it's awesome.
  • ujal 18y ago
    I frequently use http://tineye.com http://tineye.com to find images in a bigger resolution. Its also very handy if you want to find the author of a particular image/picture. Their bookmarklet is also extemely useful.
• nopassrecover 18y ago
  This is almost certainly using some kind of image processing rather than just metadata. http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&prev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dapple&qtype=similar&tprev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dapple&tbnid=u18bgKxb_hjznM&prev=/imgres%3Fq%3Dapple%26qtype%3Dlanding%26tbnid%3Du18bgKxb_hjznM&tprev=/images%3Fq%3Dapple http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&prev... http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&prev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dapple&qtype=similar&tprev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dapple&tbnid=eWVIkcHybqyfqM&prev=/imgres%3Fq%3Dapple%26qtype%3Dlanding%26tbnid%3DeWVIkcHybqyfqM&tprev=/images%3Fq%3Dapple http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&prev... http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&prev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dapple%26qtype%3Dsimilar%26tbnid%3Du18bgKxb_hjznM&qtype=similar&tprev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dapple&tbnid=Y8f5vYEJ-Zjj6M&prev=/imgres%3Fq%3Dapple%26qtype%3Dlanding%26tbnid%3DY8f5vYEJ-Zjj6M&tprev=/images%3Fq%3Dapple http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&prev...
  • thetable 18y ago
    It's hard to say. Maybe it's a mix. Here's a counterexample: http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&qtype=similar&tbnid=npK3gwxTq2ePJM&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dapple&tprev=/images%3Fq%3Dapple http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images?q=apple&qtyp...
    • nopassrecover 18y ago
      Nice - I think you're right.