Thursday, October 29, 2009

Google Images Adds Similar Search Function [Image Search]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/K1TQiPz2vYc/google-images-adds-similar-search-function

The same day that GazoPa's similar image search graduates from beta, Google upgrades its own Google Labs similar search experiment to a full-fledged Google Images feature. A "Find similar images" link under certain pictures pulls off the trick.

From a cursory few searches, Google's own similar image search seems to perform a bit more accurately when it comes to hunting down real-life images that look like other captured images. You can't upload or draw your image basis, as with GazoPa, but then you get greater results filtering with Google as well—exact dimensions, color saturation, file type, and more.

Both sites are worth keeping bookmarked if you're often digging around for something just a little different than what you're working with.