Another innovative offering from Google Labs.
Still in the labs, you can now search for images via a text search, and then browse through the results. If Google has found some similar images based on the image itself, you just click on the Similar Images link and it shows you all similar images for example, if you select a face shot of Paris Hilton, it will return a result of face shots of Paris Hilton, or a similar effect if you select a full body photo of Paris Hilton it would return the full body photos of Paris Hilton.
Let’s run through an example:
- you’ll need to go to http://similar-images.googlelabs.com .
- Type in your search, “Friends” (the sitcom) –> the results are returns
- You’ll see that some images have the Similar images link below.
- For my search I’m looking for all the Friend images where they have a group photo with the white shirts and blue pants, so I click on the similar images below the thumbnail.
- Now, again it will return a set of results but with images related to the image I selected.
- Click on the desired image, and it will take you to the website where the image originates, but notice the next cool feature.
- In the top frame it now shows you similar images in case you’d like to jump to another originating site instead of going back to the search results.
You can find more information on the Official Google Blog post here.
And a nice video done by Google: