Google Image Search Gets Closer To Picasa
On Picasa’s homepage, a slogan proclaims, “Fast and easy photo sharing from Google.” The exchange now seems to work in the other direction, as well, since Picasa results have been integrated into...
View ArticleDigg Scoops Up Images, Tweaks Categories
It took a while but Digg finally has an images category available for contributions and sharing with other Diggers. Digg became more photogenic as the social media site finally tucked an...
View ArticleDigg Adds Images Category
It seems like Digg users have been asking for–and Kevin Rose promising–a category for images and photos forever. Well the long wait is now over and you can finally uploaded your favorite lolcats image....
View ArticleGoogle Chart API Released
Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added)...
View ArticleFrench Girls Find ‘Appiness On Google Maps
That it’s near the corner of Cedar and Shaft doesn’t help, and that Google Maps picked it up makes it a legendary prank. And if aliens happened to be flying over Hazelton, Pennsylvania around the same...
View ArticlePhotoshop Express Drives Online
Adobe released its latest rich Internet application, an online version of its signature image manipulation program, Photoshop. Dubbed Photoshop Express, the service may have sounded a death knell for...
View ArticleGoogle Sheds More Light On VisualRank
Researchers for Google recently presented a paper on applying the company’s PageRank technology to the world of product image search. Without appended metadata, search engines can’t truly see images....
View ArticleGoogle Image Search Meeting Image Ads
Display advertising, where Google does not shine as brightly as it does in search ads, could be coming to the image searching side of the site. Google may not plan to have ads on its signature home...
View ArticleGoogle Playing Copy-Cat to Bing
If you have been paying attention to what Google has been doing as of late to improve its user experience, you might be noticing something strange. It seems that almost every time that Google makes an...
View ArticleMozilla’s Mozjpeg Should Make Firefox Faster
The JPEG has been around for more than 20 years now. When technology gets that old, you either take it out back or teach it some new tricks. Mozilla is opting for the latter even as it prepares for a...
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