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Microsoft adds similar images feature to Live Search Images
When you conduct a search using Live Search Images, you can hover your mouse over any image and click the "show similar images" button. To be honest, it's a bit tricky to tell exactly what this does. Because if you've searched for something like "stick" you're probably already looking at a window filled with pictures of sticks. If you click the similar images button, you'll wind up on another page with images filled with sticks. That said, when I said I wanted to see similar images to a stick bug, I did get another picture of an insect - and several pictures of deodorant, glue sticks, and stick figures.
If you're looking for a more advanced image comparison service, check out TinEye, a beta site that allows you to upload a picture and find images on the internet that are compositionally similar.
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laifhakur said 8:34PM on 12-02-2008
http://ForiSearch.com also helps you expand your images and video searches in new directions. It does so by helping you do foreign image searches using MSN, Google, and Yahoo.
I hope no one is annoyed that I just posted a very similar comment on another story. The other story was about language translation website that is using Google's API. It is just a huge coincidence that a story about Google's language translation API and a story about image searching were posted so close together! Because the combination of the two is *exactly* what ForiSearch does.
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Quikboy said 6:48PM on 12-03-2008
I can't be the only one that likes Live Search Images. The clean layout works great, and just hover if you need more info. I did notice a change, but didn't recognize that it was this. Pretty cool.
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