Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified?
Nov 19, 2009 at 1:19pm ET by Matt McGee
Saying the host site was serving malware to users, Google has removed a controversial photo of First Lady Michelle Obama from Google Image Search. The site itself, however, remains listed in Google web search results without any visible malware warning.
Welcome to the murky world of free speech, politics, and Google.
It began last week, when Search Engine Roundtable pointed out a racist image showing as the number one result in Google Image Search for the term [Michelle Obama]. The image was apparently removed yesterday.
In a Google Web Search Help Forum thread discussing the image, [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Images, Legal: Censorship, Top News
Google Image Swirl: A New Way To Browse For Similar Images
Nov 17, 2009 at 2:00pm ET by Chris Sherman
The newest addition to Google Labs is a mashup of Google Images, Google Similar Images and the visual query refinement tool, the Google Wonder Wheel. Called Google Image Swirl, the new tool clusters similar images based on characteristics found in both the text surrounding images, as well as using some of the visual analysis techniques that I wrote about in Google Adds Search By Similarity To Image Search back in April.
Image Swirl results look a lot like the thumbnails presented in regular image search results, but you can see that there are many images stacked behind the topmost result.
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Filed in: Google: Images, Top News
Find Similar Images Now In Google Image Search
Oct 28, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Barry Schwartz
Six months ago, Google released an image search labs project that allowed you to search by similarity within image search. Google announced that they have promoted that labs project as a default feature in Google Image Search.
Now when you search on Google Images, you may often find a link under the image that says, "Find similar images." When you click that link, Google will show you images that look similar to the image you were looking at.
Here is a picture of how that link looks:
I personally tried it this morning, but for some reason, non of the example searches work, nor d [...]
Filed in: Google: Images
Google Expands “Search Options” For Web & Image Search
Jul 31, 2009 at 9:34am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Operating System spotted two new Google search options including custom date ranges web search and advanced image searches directly on the left side navigation.
When Google first launched search refinements in the "search options" section, they did not allow you to add a custom date range. Now you can, here is a picture:
It also seems like Google is testing the "search options" feature for image search. I personally do not see it on my computers, but Google Operating System took a screen shot:
Postscript: Later on today, Google officially announced the addition of sea [...]
Filed in: Google: Images, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search
Google’s New Report Offensive Images Feature
Jul 10, 2009 at 10:04am ET by Barry Schwartz
If you go to Google Images and search on a keyword, and then click on new SafeSearch filter drop down (might only work on a PC), you will see a new way of reporting offensive images. A drop down lets you select, "report offensive images." Here is a picture:
When you click it, the page changes, to give you check boxes and a way to report several images as offensive. Here is a picture of that page:
This does help people report several images at once. It does not seem to work for me on any Mac browser. [...]
Filed in: Google: Images
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