Friday, April 18, 2008

Visual Search Engines

Scary.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Why do you say scary? Isn't this going to be the next area which google is going to have to work on - Image search ability using images and not text.

ME said...

Absolutely. I say scary in a slang-ish kind of way.

It's just crazy the kind of technology that's developing right under our noses. And at times, we seem to walk into it blindly.

See my art director friends' post about how Google scanned his site's pdf images for searchable words:

http://monkeyama.blogspot.com/2008/04/when-technology-accidently-makes-things.html

Scary. In a good way.