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Searching by Image Instead of Keywords
Content based image retrieval (CBIR), the technique to search for images not by keywords, but by comparing features of the images themselves has been the focus of much research ever since the web emerged. Consider for instance adding CBIR to Google Images, where you would be able to search for images similar to a query image instead of using keywords. A research project at Penn State University has recently been applied to the biggest aviation photo database in the world with close to 800,000 images. You can search for images similar to a photo already in their database (click "View similar photos") or submit your own query image. Some queries generate better results than others but CBIR is certainly here to stay and will be standard in many image applications of the future.
How's this for something to search for?
How about images of Beslan.
Say what you want, you fucking leftist, anti-American, stupid shitheads. The US of A does not deliberately target children.
Look at that picture long and hard. And think long and hard about who you want to win in Iraq.
I sure hope you're not rooting for the side that doesn't let women vote much less wear anything short of a tent in public, and buries gays alive under dump trucks full of stones.
And let's not even begin to mention murdering children.
Those images make me sick. Almost as sick as the sheltered, useful idiots who support such actions.
PS - if you agree with me, I dare you to post those images at school or at work. Time to fight against those that support child murderers.