Google experiments with searchable images

Two Google scientists presented a paper at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision of future image search.

The new image search technology doesn’t just index text associated with an image in determining what’s in it. Google is now looking at using computers to analyze the imagery in photos, and using that to associate it in a ranked way with keyword queries. In effect, they’re talking about images a PageRank.

When we think about using Google image search today what we are doing is searching through image names or descriptions.

In the future we will be searching through image metadata. Once computers are able to analyze rich content and create this metadata, content will no longer be invisible on the net.

For further info, check out this TechCrunch article.

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