Find Similar Images Now In Google Image Search

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, […]

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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:

Google Similar Images

I personally tried it this morning, but for some reason, non of the example searches work, nor do my own examples work. It is possible that this feature is not fully launched yet or that Google has pulled it due to a temporary bug. I am not sure, but if you do not see it, you can always play with it at similar-images.googlelabs.com.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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