Image Searching in internet

How many times have you tried to search images in internet? How many clicks did you go before getting the actual image you are looking for? You can actually get the image with a single click, but you have to be very lucky.

Google may be the undoubtedly the best search engine, even if Microsoft doesnot like it. But when it comes to image search the landscape changes dramatically.

Truly said, images speaks more than a thousand words. But is http://images.google.com/ is your only answer? Does yahoo or bing do it better?

Microsoft is planning with Apple to be the default search engine, but is it doing enough for the images search. The new visual search bing can catch your eye. Try http://www.bing.com/visualsearch to believe.

Loaded on Silverlight, see images appear based on the categories. You can narrow down your search results and see unwanted images disappear. You can get information on the images with a mouse over. Once you get the right image you are looking for, click on to it to go the bing search results page. Microsoft is not indexing all the images, it says it will index only those images which it feels are more relevant to the zone. 

You have another competitor for bing. Cooliris, is an old solution for visual pleasure of searching images, videos on the internet. It indexes on bing, yahoo, google, flicker, picassa and many other services. You can load the extensions from http://www.cooliris.com/. 

  

The 3D wall is great and you can actually swap through the 3D wall to the picture or video of your choice. Adjust the 3D wall size as per your choice. You can get Cooliris for your IPhone and Nexus One as well.

Well, will google be quite when there is so much to offer from others? Will Google have only old image search? No, you are right. Google is doing something and doing it big. Check out http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com the new venture of Google. Based on the Google WonderWheel  technology, image swirl is really a great thought from Google.

Search for any image, then see the wheel take the control of your mind. Click on the particular image, see a sew wheel come up with more relevant images. You can go on discovering the image of your choice, and Google keeps remembering the wheel path for you to trace back. Google, unlike Bing will index on all the images for the web pages it indexes.

Post your comments on what do you think will rule the future?