Google Image Swirl
Semantic web image searching
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by Josh Newman
Why change Google image search?
The Problem:
-Searches weren't "smart"
-Type in "Mustang"
-Pictures of horses and cars
Google's Solution:
-Semantic grouping
-Whaaaa?
An Idea, Not a place
The Semantic Web seeks to:
-See past user's word choices
-Look for meaning in search
-Focus on grouping of ideas
-Understand subtleties of language
How does it know?
-Picasa face recognition
-Image similarity
-Landmark recognition
-Complicated algorithms beyond our understanding
?
Try it out
-Google Image Swirl is "smarter"
-Grouped more abstractly/"humanly"
-Less terms have been "swirled"
-Swirled terms: search more precise
�-More terms to come