Interwoven Patents Some Aspects Of Image Search

prostoalex writes "InterWoven patented locating and identifying image content via shapes, texture, color or resemblance to another image. No official word yet on whether the company thinks there are any infringers."

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To my knowledge Google only uses textual metadata

[foniksonik]

I believe Google just uses surrounding textual metadata from the web page to identify a likely candidate image... combined with a false positive approach where an image named or labeled money.gif on a page with 50% content about puppies.. probably the image isn't a puppy, while all other large file sized images most likely are puppies...