Google Rolls Out News Timeline, Similar Image Search
The Internet — By ericjmartin on April 21, 2009 10:54 amThose nutty programmers over at Google labs released two new features to the world yesterday, similar image search and news timeline. They seem to have busy this past winter, and these new features likely won’t disappoint.
Google news timeline aims to create a rich user interface that gives us yet another way to digest all the information flying around the internet. Google describes the program as:
Google News Timeline presents search results from a wide range of sources. You can search and browse results from Google News, including headlines, quotes, photos from our Hosted News partners, and YouTube partner videos. You can also search for thousands of archival newspapers and magazines from Google News Archive Search and Google Book Search.
Seems like google could incorporate this interface into their popular Reader web application. It’s definitely a clever idea, let’s see where the company takes it.
Also from google labs, Similar Images aims to provide the user with a method to find exactly the images they are looking for, without the need to change or narrow search terms. Most images don’t provide a whole lot of tags or meta information that makes them useful for the typical search engine to find. Instead, type in a basic search term, and click on the “similar images” link in the best image fitting your interest to return more search options. Visual parametric searches like this could really take off in e-commerce venues, and change how we shop for items online. This sort of search will also be able to revolutionize how artists find stock imagery.
For a complete tour, view the video embedded after the jump.
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