Google Image Swirl

[Tomi H�s�]

Explore Similar Images with Google Image Swirl
November 18, 2009
"Google has released an interactive similar images explorer. The app is
called Google Image Swirl, and it's using the wonder wheel Flash
visualization you might know from web search results."
"Here's how it works: you enter a query, like "lion". After a bit of
loading, and if your keyword is supported (not all queries are), you'll be
presented with some visual base categories Google could find"
"Opening a category by clicking on it will start the star exploration,
with your image in center, surrounded by similar images. Clicking on a
surrounding image will put it in focus, and new surrounding images are
loaded dynamically"
"Once you reached a final image with no more new neighbors, a click on it
will take you to the original source site it's crawled from"
"In all of this, even due to its scripted Flash nature, the back button
will take you to your last focus image. The app is fast, accessible,
scaling pretty well to many keywords (not all - Google mentions there's
200,000 at the moment), and on first glance it looks useful, too."
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-11-18-n18.html

Google Image Swirl
"Google Image Swirl organizes image search results into groups and
sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents
them in an intuitive exploratory interface. Try this tool to resolve an
ambiguous query visually (apple, jaguar, beetle) or to explore a concept
from different visual perspectives (Eiffel Tower, beach, impressionism)."
http://www.googlelabs.com/show_details?app_key=agtnbGFiczIwLXd3d3ITCxIMTGFic0FwcE1vZGVsGMopDA

Google Image Swirl
http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/

Google Image Swirl FAQ
http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/html/help.html

Google Labs
http://www.googlelabs.com/