{"id":44796,"date":"2009-11-18T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Experimental-Image-Swirl-Search-Lands-in-Google-Labs-127249.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-18T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:32:00","slug":"experimental-image-swirl-search-lands-in-google-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44796","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Image Swirl Search Lands in Google Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google enjoys a very solid and comfortable lead in search right now and this is true for most types of searches, including image search. This doesn’t mean that it can rest on its laurels, if anything Google is the company that showed others just that, so it’s now launching a totally new way of discovering images via some interesting technologies and an experimental user interface. The new feature is called Google Image Swirl and is very similar to the Wonder Wheel view in the main search.<\/p>\n

“Today, we’ve launched an experimental feature in Labs called Google Image Swirl, which builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface,” Aparna Chennapragada, product manager, and Yushi Jing, Google Research, explain the feature. “For example, if you search on Image Swirl for [washington], you’ll see 12 image thumbnails including President Washington, the Washington Monument, a map of Washington D.C. and the Capitol Building. Once you find the group of images you’re interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will “swirl” into view.”<\/p>\n

Image Swirl is confined to Google Labs for now, but even if it doesn’t get included in the main image search in this exact form, the overall idea behind the exp… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google enjoys a very solid and comfortable lead in search right now and this is true for most types of searches, including image search. This doesn’t mean that it can rest on its laurels, if anything Google is the company that showed others just that, so it’s now launching a totally new way of discovering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}