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Image Search with Google Image Swirl

Searching for images is becoming increasingly easy with these new features Google offers us from time to time. Now, they've introduced Google Image Swirl.

Stacking similar images that you can then easily navigate through, this new lab feature is certainly attractive.
This Image Swirl is an evolution of the similar image feature that also began as a Labs experiment and later graduated to "full feature."



Google Phone about to arrive?

Remember all the buzz surrounding the mythical Google Phone? It all quiet down when it was announced it was really a platform (Android) and that there were to be lots of different phones using it.
But now it all seems to be back. You might actually get a Google Phone, which would be a "high-end" super-Android phone made by HTC (or other manufacturer) according to Google Specs.

Considering MS has been pressuring manufacturers to keep having "appealing" phone models in exclusive "Windows Mobile-only" I think it's only fair for Google to do the same and offer us a mouth-watering device combining great looks with even greatest hardware!



Chrome OS details tomorrow!

We'll finally be able to know more about Google's Chrome OS tomorrow.

We're promissed a full Chrome OS overview that will keep us salivating till next year, when its finally launched.

(Hope they do let us use some beta version before that. :)

PhotoSketch

Are you one of those people who can't draw or do anything "right" in image processing software?

Worry not, this PhotoSketch will save the day!

At last we'll have computers actually doing artistic work for us.
All you need is to draw a rough outline of what you want in your "perfect picture" and the computer will search for the best images and compose it all together. Although there are still errors that need ironing out, most of the time the results are amazing.


PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

Similar Image Search with Google Labs

Google has been hard at work in image processing and image recognition. Today, we're able to use some of that expertise with a new service: Similar Images Search.

Using this Similar Images Search from Google Labs, you can easily find similar images to the one you're interested in. This is particularly useful, for instance, when you're search term represent several different items.
As shown on the following video, if you're searching for "jaguar", you'd be presented with images of bothe the animal as well as cars from that brand. Now, you can easily zoom in on the ones you really want.



... I imagine that, in a couple of years we'll be doing the same kind of stuff... with video! :)