Google Image Search adds search by style feature
Google has added a new search by style feature to its Image Search page. You can search for pictures from news items, pictures with faces, clip art, line drawings, or photos.
For some items, like "Apple" the results are impressive. If you click faces, you get pictures of Steve Jobs. If you click clip art or line drawings, you get cartoon-like images of apples. But some queries return funnier results. For example, a clip art search for "juice" returns plenty of drawings of juice boxes and glasses of juice. But when you click on the news content tab you find pictures of OJ Simpson, among other things.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Chris Liphart said 11:55AM on 12-20-2008
While it may seem a minor update, I'll get a lot of use out of this feature! Trying to add an image type to the search term itself has always ended badly.
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Boudu said 10:01AM on 12-21-2008
This can be very useful if applied correctly.
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nikita said 4:50PM on 1-06-2009
dont realy have one just the apples look tassty
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