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Google offers snapshot of VisualRank efforts
Google is starting to provide a fuller picture of the work it's undertaking to create a practical tool for image searches.
On its Google Research blog Thursday, the company offered a brief introduction to VisualRank, a system that sorts out images by means of visual cues rather than by text associated with the images. The write-up is a distillation of a much longer paper (PDF), "PageRank for Product Image Search," that two Google researchers presented last week at a conference in Beijing on Web technologies.
The VisualRank system is not yet live, and Google intimated that the … Read more
