Search Engines: Photo & Image Search
Google Image search updates referrer URL to help publishers track image search traffic
In coming months, the Google Image search referral URL will be changing. Make sure your software tools are...
Pinterest’s Lens update adds a Snapchat-style look and a fashion sense
Pinterest is making its image-scanning visual search tool easier to use and more useful for outfit...
Bing Visual Search lets you search specific objects within images
Bing joins Google, Pinterest and others in upgrading its image search...
Pinterest’s updated browser extension turns off-Pinterest images into search queries
Pinterest's extension will scan images on a web page to show related pins. But those visual search results won't include...
Flickr’s new ‘similarity search’ feature makes it easier to find visually similar photos
Flickr says its new search option uses advanced technology to surface similar photos without much work on the user's end....
Pinterest hires head of Google senior image search engineer Randy Keller
Hire comes at a time when Pinterest is ramping up "visual discovery" tools....
Pinterest’s Lens app turns your phone’s camera into a search bar
Pinterest is bringing search to the real world. On Wednesday, the social-network-slash-search-engine introduced Lens, a mobile app that uses the...
Wolfram Alpha Launches Image Identification Search Engine
Wolfram Alpha does image search the Wolfram way, but showing entity data around the image as they interpret it....
Flickr Testing Improved Search Experience [PHOTOS]
Some Flickr users should be seeing a new search interface that’s described on the site as a “beta” and offers faster access to...
Find Cat Pictures Quicker: Imgur Rolls Out A New Look With Advanced Image Search
The wildly popular image host, Imgur, has new duds and some powerful search tools that can help users identify viral images quicker than ever....
Flickr Makes Creative Commons Image Search Easier
Flickr has quietly rolled out a change to its search interface that makes it a lot easier to find images that are licensed through Creative...
VIDEO: Pinterest Guided Search, A Visual Discovery Tool For Mobile Devices
Pinterest wants to help its users find what they are looking for even if they don’t know what exactly that is. The company’s...
How To Search Your Own “Pins” On Pinterest
Pinterest announced a new, useful search feature that allows you to filter your search results to just your own Pins. You can now search for...
Sorry, BuzzFeed: Pinterest Isn’t A Better Search Engine Than Google
I went on a BuzzFeed diet about a month ago, where I stopped following the site and reading the content there. I should have stuck to it,...
Baidu Testing Facial Recognition Search; Similar To Google’s “Search By Image”
The most popular search engine in China, Baidu, is reportedly working on a new image search feature for facial recognition. Searchers can upload...
Bing’s Image Search Gets A New Look, Updated Features
Bing has updated its image search today with a new look and some tweaks to its search and discovery features. The first thing you’ll...
Four Seriously Cool Information Resources
As a librarian, researcher and frequent blogger, I’m constantly coming across incredibly useful online information resources that are most...
Flickr (Finally) Has An Android App
It sure took a long time, but Flickr has finally launched its first Android app. Flickr has had an iPhone app for more than two years. The new...
Twitter User Galleries Start Rolling Out Today
Twitter has begun rolling out User Galleries, a new feature that should make the process of searching (and finding) images shared on Twitter a...
Twitter Taking Direct Photo Uploads, Will Create User Media Galleries
Twitter says it’s planning to create “user media galleries” that will house all of the media a user shares on the service...