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Monday, April 20, 2009

Google image search: With color?

I ran a Google image search today, and was surprised to see this:

google_images_color

New feature, hurray! (and may actually prove useful…)

Monday, April 20, 2009 3:25:17 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

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Monday, April 20, 2009 9:44:24 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Gee, this OpenID sign in you have is totally not Chrome-friendly (try it

Ofer Egozi

Monday, April 20, 2009 9:54:06 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

... and see)
One of those neat features that are so trivial to implement, you just need to be smart enough to think of them. Just like the Gmail "undo send" feature, which was really nothing more than a simple delay, but makes so much sense for users...

Anyway, I guess I'd better not ask how "cute babies" became "drowned kittens", right?....

alteregozi.com | noneAT NOSPAMnone dot com

Monday, April 20, 2009 10:51:29 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Strange, you're right -- it's a regression, I think (I initially tested the site on Chrome, so...)
I'll report it.

Tomer Gabel | tomerAT NOSPAMtomergabel dot com

Monday, April 20, 2009 10:54:03 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

And yes, it is relatively trivial to implement, but the "thinking about it part" never ceases to impress me :-)

Tomer Gabel | tomerAT NOSPAMtomergabel dot com

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:24:49 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

And yet another one out just today... also a brilliant example of that principle - because the grouping is only of images that respond to the same query, results are extremely relevant: http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/

[BTW - that second part of my comment didn't get published for some reason, although I see you read it... seems there is a problem when submitting comments with html links in them]

alteregozi.com | noneAT NOSPAMnone dot com

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:15:12 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Yeah, akismet considered a couple of your comments spam for some reason and I didn't notice. Strange, and the URLs don't appear to show up either...

Tomer Gabel | tomerAT NOSPAMtomergabel dot com

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