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Go find out for yourself! Here's some prior art. It's not very good (it doesn't understand the concept of edges like MS's stuff does), but unfortunately the article doesn't have a link to the actual patent to tell if it's specific enough... the link that should go to the patent goes to the app on the Windows Phone site. (Certainly, the algorithm is impressive, though.)

Rtriever has been doing exactly the same thing since 2006. http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

I've tried this but instead matching a lake I get:
blue sky
blue bus
bluish sunset
snowy mountains
a flower (with blue background)
etc...

I wonder if the aforementioned NEC program was any more useful...

For those who missed retrievr...http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/ While this is good for hours of entertainment, i hope what theyre promoting is better.

You can! it's neat...
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/taor?c=1

Direct Link

Requires Flash.

I don't get the widespread contempt for this. Okay maybe it should have been called Web 1.2, but so what? If all the naysayers here have seen stuff like fold, and this thingy and still think the web is the same old place... well, show me something innovative!

>> finding a photo by drawing a rough sketch of it.
>> THAT would be really cool

It is really cool, albeit this implementation is not perfect, check out retrievr.