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Google Buy Like.com

Gary Singer — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:32:48 +0000

Today if you visit the site www.like.com you will find a note placed on the top of home page that it has been acquired by Google. A note from the site chief executive Munjal Shah on the company site informed about the deal and yet has not disclosed much on this. The acquisition price is also not informed yet. The Tech site Techcrunch has earlier informed about this acquisition when it was in its initial stage.
“Since 2006 Like .com has been moving the frontiers of E commerce forward one step at a time . We were the first to bring visual search to shopping.

Here is the not placed on the site :-

Google images lighter and easier navigation

Gary Singer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:17:27 +0000

Google introduced a redesigned version of its search engine Google images takes on a lighter and easier navigation.

An article on the official Google Blog showcases a real revolution in the image search engine of Google, at least in its American version.

Now the pictures come in the form of a vast mosaic, without information of the dimensions, the picture name and the site from which it originates. This information still exist, but to see it will pass the mouse cursor over an image. Fortunately, there is an option “show sizes” allows for print-on sizes above each image.

By cons nothing is expected to display the sources of images. But it is important information because the name of the site where the image can be an indicator of relevance and quality. This system will probably reduce the profile and visibility of websites, as the name brand or company will be virtually invisible.

Another big change, now all the images are grouped on one page, with a scroll system. The pictures load gradually as one moves down the page, is avoiding too long loading times.

For a surfer, it’s a pleasure to browse the images without having to change the page in the browser. Simply pressing the Page Up and Page Down can change the selection.Google has not forgotten the sponsored links which is a new format called Image Search Ads will soon allow advertisers to insert advertisements of their products with a photograph, and appear in Google Images.

Image Swirl new technique in Google Labs to search images

Nancy White — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:08:30 +0000

Google keeps experimenting new innovations in its search technology and may be their evolving algorithm is what makes them a search giant. Their latest innovation comes to image search with an experimental feature in Google Labs named as Image Swirl.

Google Image Swirl cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface. When user make an image query the new feature displays 12 image thumbnails relevantly related to the query made. Each thumbnail is a group of images. On choosing a group among those thumbnails displays a circular rotational cluster with similar queries branch off.

User can then further explore additional sub-groups within any cluster.
Google Image Swirl is built on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative set. Image Swirl is advancement made to combined technologies of Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition. It shares its basic from these technologies to form sets of similar images and to build hierarchies out of these groups.

Pointing over the pictures with cursor shows the pics dimensions and the link to the domain where image originally belongs.

Google explains the cover photo representing the group is “an algorithmically-determined representative group of images with similar appearance and meaning”. The Image Swirl has similar interface as that of Google Wonder Wheel used for text search.

Like the Bing’s Visual search launched in mid September Google Image Swirl is also available only for 200,000 queries at present. Google Product Manager Aparna Chennapragada said in the blog post that available queries will auto-complete as user start to type in the search box, similar to Google Suggest.