The same day that GazoPa’s similar image search graduates from beta, Google upgrades its own Google Labs similar search experiment to a full-fledged Google Images feature. A “Find similar images” link under certain pictures pulls off the trick.
Windows: Free Office 2003 & 2007 plug-in OffiSync lets desktop users open documents from, and save to, Google Docs’ online servers, but that’s nothing amazingly new. A newer Google Search option does, however, integrates powerful image and web searches.
Picasa Web Albums, Google’s image sharing service, has added advanced options for searching, making it easier to find just the size and orientation of photo you want, as well as opening the doors to commercial use and remixes.
Lifehacker editors are, if nothing else, veterans at finding relevant, reusable images with permissive Creative Commons (CC) licensing on photo sharing site Flickr. So it’s great to hear that Yahoo now offers advanced CC filtering for Flickr photos through its own, more powerful image search tool.
Google’s new experimental Similar Images feature in Google Labs offers a new way to refine image searches, narrowing down your results based exclusively on images that are very similar to what you’re looking for.
A couple of weeks back we showed you a URL hack for searching Google Image Search by colour. Now the handy little feature has been integrated directly into Google Image Search, no hack necessary.
