photosearch

Google is experimenting with ways to make Google Photos' search function significantly more powerful.

Same Energy is a new Web tool that's perfect for photographers looking for visual inspiration. It's an AI-powered visual search engine that provides a fast and simple experience for exploring visually similar photos.

The stock photo service Shutterstock has announced a new powerful photo search tool called Composition Aware Search. It uses advanced deep learning technology to let you search for photos containing certain objects in certain locations.

If you'd like to see how your photos are being used across the Web, there's a new free browser extension that lets you do so with one click. It's called PhotoTracker Lite, and it makes it easy to quickly search multiple major reverse image search engines.

500px today announced a new tool called Splash. Instead of searching for photos using titles, keywords, EXIF details, or colors, Splash lets you hunt for photos simply by sketching them on a canvas.

picsbuffet is a new visual image browsing system that lets you explore and search millions of photographs through an interface that feels like Google Maps.

Flickr rolled out a new search engine last week, but one thing it still lacks is a way to search by EXIF data. A new website has launched to fill that hole. Called shutterdial, it's a Flickr search engine that lets you find photos by camera settings such as focal length, aperture, and shutter speed.

Right after Google I/O wrapped up in May, we shared the news that Google's personal image search had just gotten a whole lot better. The tech giant claimed that you could now search through yours and your friends photos based on visual content, even if the photos themselves weren't labeled or tagged.

At the time, all we knew was that the system used "computer vision and machine learning" to detect subjects like "flowers," "food" or "car" and generate searchable tag data that makes your photos easier to find. Now, thanks to Google's Research blog, we're getting a bit more detail on the tech under the hood.

Google I/O brought with it a lot of exciting updates for Google+, not the least of which were a slew of automatic improvements to Google+ Photos including Auto Highlight, Auto Enhance and Auto Awesome. But the updates didn't stop when I/O ended last Friday.

Today, Google's Search blog announced that the company has started implementing some impressive technology that will allow you to search for your photos based on what they contain visually, even if there's not a tag in sight.

With the prevalence of smartphones and the massive photo community that is Instagram, it's no surprise that news outlets and journalists are more and more frequently turning to the service to source photos for major events. Unfortunately, Instagram's search functionality is almost non-existent. That's where the new open-source search tool QIS comes into play.

As people snap more and more digital photos, being able to organize those photos into useful sets is becoming …

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