Google's new image (search)
Has anyone else noticed the upgrades to Google's image search? Did this happen months ago and I'm just now catching on?
I'm referring specifically to the dropdowns that now appear in the blue bar at the top. I think they've had the size one for awhile, which is nice but not particularly thrilling. The ones I noticed today, though, are the content and color selectors.
The content selector lets you pick a particular source or style of image—only news images, or only line art, and so on. The color selector lets you pick the predominant color of the images. They're handy ideas, and the work surprisingly well.
For example, do a search for "cake." Then click where it says "all colors" and change it to black. Lots and lots of black cakes (I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that they're this popular—damned emo kids).
The results seem to fall off a bit when you start mixing them ("faces," for example, seems to return more non-cake images when you filter on a color), but I suppose that's to be expected.
Labels: cake, colors, google, images
posted by Smitty @ 2:58 PM
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