The site does not contain photos, but instead links to Google images of celebrities.
It grabs locations from Foursquare to choose from, as well as photos to select from Google images.
The Facebook newsfeed is 5 years old and searching for pretty pictures on Google Images is ancient.
One licensing agreement later, and an academic research project has become a Google Images game - and the results are proliferating.
Under Image Sources, the default is your Picture folder, we're going to select that and remove it and then add the google images.
Google-owned properties like YouTube, Blogger, Google Images and Google Maps already show up frequently in Google search results, points out search engine marketer Rand Fishkin.
Wikipedia pages, by comparison, receive more traffic from Google than any Web site other than Myspace or Google's own Google Images, according to Hitwise, a Web analysis group.
Just as I did in my original piece I want to show you side by side images of both the image that was texted to me as well as images culled from Google Images.
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Alas I am not a designer, I am merely a writer but, I can still perhaps help paint the picture in your collective heads by showing you the following image I found via Google Images.
The project collects what it says are Google Earth images of the locations of drone strikes.
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She has the engineering chops, as well as the insights that helped develop some of the most ubiquitous web destinations, from Google search and images to Gmail.
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As a user, I find it useful that Google includes some images in the main search results page when it thinks image results are likely to be relevant.
Yes, I can use Google to find images of Pluto that are just as good as what Apple Maps can offer me of the place where I live.
When Google takes away background images, we decide that we loved them all along even though we never changed them.
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He has also created software that will help analyse deforestation using a huge archive of satellite images that Google is making available.
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When enabled, this feature optimizes HTTP traffic over an SSL connection and transcodes images to Google's homegrown WebP format to reduce file sizes.
The inclusion of images makes Google a better search engine.
To capture even more images, Google announced today Street View Trekker, a portable technology pack with 360-degree camera, that fits into a backpack and be carried by users into remote and wilderness areas only accessible by foot.
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Google said it will begin to add 3-D images of buildings to its Google Earth app for mobile devices.
It seems the 315-year-old map was found by divers capturing Google Maps underwater street view images.
Other apps, for example Layar and Google Goggles, combine visual images with data gleaned from web browsers and other software.
Users can download mobile apps from the Google Play store and share images over cellular networks by tethering to a nearby smartphone or tablet.
Google Drive failed to find images with generic file names on almost all of my own pictures, even when they included things like mountains or other common objects.
It's also really handy to use Google image search as your source because you're likely not to have hundreds of images on one specific subject, but google does.
Most importantly, Google is now using vector graphics for its maps, which are scalable and much lighter weight than the traditional stitched together images used in most Google Maps incarnations.
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For a company that's about to go public and already competing head to head against brilliant, powerful businesses like Apple and Google, adding the power of images to its mix of personal stories and marketing seems like a smart move.
The product is likely being released so Google can build up a database of images and behaviors, to improve quality.
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The digital images are then attached to Google's online map system so visitors can virtually travel up and down a route.
Google's Street View project sent hundreds of vehicles to photograph city streets around the world so that people using Google Maps could see 360-degree images of the locations.
Intrigued, he typed the words into Google and was blown away by the strange images before him.
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