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Re: Visual Search Engines From Jake on 11 June '01 replying to Visual Search Engines posted by Jake Dale - Hey Dale. Thanks for the URL. Unfortuately, that article was written 3 1/2 years ago. The only relevant link there I could find is the altavista image search, which I checked out. Get this: first of all, the family has to be set to "off" for it to work. Then, after you do th initial keyword search, you're lucky if 1% of the resultant images have the special "similar" feature underneath. When you do click "similar" it lets you do the visual search. But I wasn't that impressed. It Doesn't really seem to match on anything but some really crude color scheme. The article I referred to was posted just last week, so I'm assuming some advances have been made, and I'm eager to get my fingers clicking on something lik this.

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>Dale - > >Hey Dale. Thanks for the URL. Unfortuately, that article was written >3 1/2 years ago. The only relevant link there I could find >is the altavista image search, which I checked out. > >Get this: first of all, the family has to be set to "off" for >it to work. Then, after you do th initial keyword search, you're >lucky if 1% of the resultant images have the special "similar" >feature underneath. When you do click "similar" it lets you do >the visual search. But I wasn't that impressed. It Doesn't >really seem to match on anything but some really crude color >scheme. > >The article I referred to was posted just last week, so I'm assuming >some advances have been made, and I'm eager to get my fingers clicking >on something lik this.