Monday, April 28, 2008

Google Refines Image Search

Google is continuing to refine its algorithm for image search and is developing a method for more effectively ranking similar images. According to the NY Times, Google engineers have come up with a new page rank algorithm.

The technology is focused on products not faces, and would only be applied to a subset of the web. Not surprisingly this is also to the most advantage for Google revenue wise as more accurate results for shoes or iPods means happier advertisers and more commerce.

Image search continues to rely on meta tags and the text around the image. Searching the image itself is too complex, especially in the fractions of seconds that Google et al need to return results. Having the software differentiate between Mindy McCready and Mindy Cohn is still too much to ask.

IBM and others have tried to master image search, but it still remains an open question.

Posted By John Gartner at 11:07 PM
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