Searchme Launches Multimedia Visual Search
Apr 30, 2009 at 3:59pm ET by Chris Sherman
Searchme has rolled out what it calls "true" blended search results, combining web, video, images,
music and Twitter results organized by their relevance and playable inside the search results page. Searchme displays results as small versions of entire web pages, in a format that looks just like the "cover flow" display in iTunes.
I love Searchme as a "recall engine," using it to find web pages or sites that I've previously visited but can't remember the site name or URL. The visual display of results, with the ability to quickly scroll through mini-versions of pages makes it easy to reco [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Audio Search Engines, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines, Search Engines: Twitter, Search Engines: Video Search Engines
Yahoo Upgrades Flickr Mobile; Google Upgrades Picasa
Dec 4, 2008 at 7:36pm ET by Matt McGee
Photo search took a couple steps forward today with announcements from both Yahoo and Google. The news from Yahoo is a mobile makeover of its Flickr photo sharing site, while Google announced a variety of improvements to its Picasa photo service.
Here's a look at the two announcements:
Flickr's "Mobile Makeover"
With visits to Flickr's mobile site (m.flickr.com) up more than 50% in the past year, the mobile site now shares much of the same features and functionality that Flickr users are familiar with on the main site.
The Yahoo announcement trumpets the new video playback capabili [...]
Filed in: Google: Picasa, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr
Search Pictures With Pictures At Live Search
Dec 2, 2008 at 8:33am ET by Barry Schwartz
Live Search announced you can now use images to find similar images in Live Image Search. To use this feature, you go to Live Image Search, search for an image, hover over an image, and click on "show similar images."
For example, I conducted an image search for myself, [barry schwartz], I then located a picture of myself. I hovered over the picture and selected "show similar images," which took me to this result set. I can see how Live Search felt those images are similar. Most the results are with blue shirts, most are of faces of people and so on. Here is a picture of where to find [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Live Search, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Top News
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