Google Image Swirl: A new way to browse for similar images

November 18, 2009 |

The newest addition to Google Labs is a mashup of Google Images, Google Similar Images and the visual query refinement tool, the Google Wonder Wheel. Called Google Image Swirl, the new tool clusters similar images based on characteristics found in both the text surrounding images.

Image Swirl results look a lot like the thumbnails presented in regular image search results, but there are many images stacked behind the topmost result.

Click on a thumbnail, and the stack expands to show you a cluster of images, related by visual characteristics. Click on one of those, and you

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