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Google Trials A9 Style Image Search
Grugnog writes "Google has started including images from it's image search on the main search page. This is similar to Amazon's A9 search engine. With Google kicking off Google Print (A9's other specialty) could A9 become redundant?"
With Google kicking off Google Print (A9's other specialty) could A9 become redundant?"
Wasn't it always? I spent some time on A9 one day -- liked the inline images -- but overall wasn't impressed. I'm sure there are dozens of handy, idiosyncratic features I missed that I'll be informed of momentarily, but my first impression was "blah."
I'd like to see more mixing of results onto a single page though. Seeing the first few images and the first few Froogle results would be a nice addition.
I Want To Believe
throws the whole feel of Google off. The less images the better.
There is no spork.
So what if pornographic images pop up? Say I search for my friend's name, and then there's porn thumbnails across the screen. Not good for those of us who use google in public.
I'm pretty sure that A9/Amazon is using google's image search in it's engine. The bottom of A9 says:
Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by a9.com and Alexa.
Also, from the faq
Who provides web search results? A9.com's Web Search Results are enhanced by Google. Data provided by A9.com and Alexa Internet is also used for search history and Site Info.
since it doesn't mention the images as from Alexa, and since I'm guessing the A9 stuff is Amazon's inside the book, it seems logical that the image search is from google.
I have blog like everyone else
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domain: GRUGNOG.COM
owner-address: Owen Barton
owner-address: 14 Parc Derwen
owner-address: Glan Conwy
owner-address: LL28 5BZ
owner-address: Colwyn Bay
owner-address: United Kingdom
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when you use normal google there's no pics. then there's no explanation wtf is this grugnog.com
and there's no pics on normal google... which is good. pics suck most of the time when you're looking for information in TEXT.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Grugnog.com is some guy's page, and submitting anything in that search box just gives a 404. Is this the musing of a guy who posts stuff to slashdot that he doesn't even mention in his blog (on the root of the domain)?
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Remember when . . .
There was a slashdot story about how you couldn't find any of the Abu Ghraib abuse photos on google image search, and people cried censorship only to realize that google simply hadn't updated its image database?
Anyone have an idea about the current update schedule of google image search?
me neither. I, and certainly keeleysam, feel duped and disappointed.
The posted link is not Google though it seems genuine; its much larger home page is, in fact, a blog.
Makes me glad to have a status bar on my browser.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Maybe others in the /. herd can verify if they get this?
...I am redirecting to mirrordot to avoid server meltdown :)
Grugnog
I changed "Traktor" to read "Upskirt" and I got a 404 page.
I hope google doesn't make this new behaviour permanent.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Not necessarily fake. Here's why you wouldn't link to it: As noted by numerous posters in this thread, and also on a Slashdot FPP just days ago, Google oftentimes rolls out features only to specific subnets. If you're not in that subnet, you don't get to see the feature.
Since the majority of people are unable to see this new feature, it only makes sense to offer a screenshot.
Everyone who thinks this is an elaborate hoax, or that the mirror was intended to be seen as an actual Google.com page, is reading waaaay too much into this.
I... feel duped
No, no, no... that comes later. Possibly as early as tomorrow.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
I wonder if they'll ever have pictures for a search for tits?
You mean Google doing web search, A9 using Google's web and image search results to enhance (their word) the results, now Google doing search which you/they/whatever say it's a copy of A9's. Now, stop that, I'm spinning. From the beginning A9 was a results ripoff with it's own interface. If they have something really worth using, that should do us (users) just good and fine, a little competitiveness can never hurt (if you leave MS out of it, that is :P ).
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I was on IRC back on January 6, and a friend of mine got some images at the top of a particular Google search. Nobody else on the channel could reproduce it, and it wasn't appearing for him on any other search.
His screenshot was identically formatted to these.
But then again, I could be wrong.