Does anyone know if there is a search engine somewhere, that you can upload an image and it searches the internet for similar images?
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Does anyone know if there is a search engine somewhere, that you can upload an image and it searches the internet for similar images?
That would require a tremendous amount of processing power to say the least.
At this point, I've never heard of anything like that.
I have....
There was a japanese site mentioned on the sitepoint forums not so long ago which allowed you to do this, but it was in alpha and wasn't 100% accurate - but was pretty damn good.
Jake Arkinstall
"Sometimes you don't need to reinvent the wheel;
Sometimes its enough to make that wheel more rounded"-Molona
Cool, do you have a link?Originally Posted by arkinstall
I'm afraid I can't find it
If I recall correctly, it was a site for proof of concept, and as such wasn't much of a search-engine. It used a few thousand stock photos rather than crawling sites.
The search goes on!!!
Jake Arkinstall
"Sometimes you don't need to reinvent the wheel;
Sometimes its enough to make that wheel more rounded"-Molona
I think a feature like that could be very useful, theres been several times when I would have an image of something and want to find out information about it and they only thing I could do was describe the image in Google and hope for results. I would try to build something like that but it's far beyond the scope of my skills.
hey I found that one...its still beta and I did not try it myself, but maybe its what you are looking for.
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Cool. Although I think it would be better if it analyzed the pixels and found a match based on that.
I've looked for a site like this also. I'd swear I'd read a blurb about one in a magazine. But I can't find any that work well...
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