As it seeks to monetize the exploding universe of uploaded images to the Web, which Google says is nearing one trillion, it is developing image processing to more effectively search and organize images. Presently, photos are indexed primarily by text and other metadata.
In May, Google announced plans to begin matching images from its fast-growing Google Image Search with display ads.
Yesterday, Andy and and I met R.J. Pittman, Google's Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, who was visiting the company's Manhattan offices.
He said that Google is developing image processing and visual search to crawl the pixels of images. Beyond facial recognition, the company is also developing scene analysis.
Adding to the utility of image search will be geo-tagging, which is already underway with a product called Panaramio.
This is the first of several posts from our chat with R.J. We will be publishing additional segments over the next few days.
--Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer
Editor's Note: Very exciting to welcome Kelsey as Associate Producer and co-blogger on Beet.TV She just joined after graduating from Dartmouth where she was an editor at the student newspaper. She was also a guest blogger for Silicon Alley Insider. She is no relation to editor Henry Blodget.
-- Andy Plesser
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Isn't google a little behind the bal on this one? idee has already done it and does it well, I think they are already moving on to movies at this point... google is too big and slow these days
There's so many directions this can go, and new avenues for spam, but don't expect much. Language will always reign supreme here, which is why I'm writing right now, not drawing you a picture.
There will be some neat applications but this won't get very far. Artists know this. You can't "reverse ray-trace" photos because life is made up of millions of accidents, visual artists know this all too well.
I already heard that Google is working on PDF search engine, Now it is also working on Image Search. Google Rocks
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