Google goes Swirl in image search

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Search giant Google added a 'Swirl' to image search, with a new feature that presents similar concepts with image search results, thus bringing more focus to finding pictures online.

The new tool, named 'Image Swirl', automatically organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups.

Google product manager Aparna Chennapragada and Yushi Jing of Google Research said Image Swirl builds on new computer vision research to cluster similar images into representative groups in a fun, exploratory interface.

“With Similar Images, which recently graduated from Google Labs, you can click 'Find similar images' to narrow your search to, say, pictures of the Eiffel Tower lit up at night. Today, we've launched an experimental feature in Labs called Google,” said their blog post.

“For example, if you search on Image Swirl for [Washington], you'll see 12 image thumbnails including President Washington, the Washington Monument, a map of Washington D.C. and the Capitol Building. Once you find the group of images you're interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will 'swirl' into view.”

You can then further explore additional sub-groups within any cluster.

Google said Swirl currently works for more than 200,000 queries the search giant is planning to include more queries in the future.

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