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November 24, 2009 
Google is always upto something. This time its changing its image search features. Now the Google image search feature is going to be more fun and more fun to find images. Google is changing its image search by Image ‘Swirl’. In a random Google search, I landed upon this blog post that had information about Google’s new Image search feature.
What is Image Swirl? Well, ‘Swirl’ is a combination of similar image search application and Google’s Wagon wheel. With Swirl added to the current Google Image search feature, searching for your desired image will become an a more quick process.
How does the new Image search work? Okay, When you type a word or a phrase in the search box, the result shown up will be cluster of images in a 4 X 3 matrix form. Each of these 12 images will have similar images grouped under them. Once you click on the image a Wonder Wheel opens with more refined search result. The Wonder Wheel comprises of scaled down version (in terms of resolution) of that particular image. So if you want a specific resolution picture, click on the picture and the resolution will be indicated there.
For example, if you are searching for ‘Mouse’, you will be shown different pictures with each set having 12 similar images in it. You may click on the required pictures to get an image of different resolutions.
I may not have been clear in explaining the process; you may want to check the pictorial representation here.
What Does Google Swirl Lack?
Currently Image Swirl supports 200,000 search items, but once Swirl is released,Goggle is planning to add more search items and make it a comprehensive Image search feature. Goggle Image Swirl is good and also makes search a less time consuming process. However, the new Google Image feature lacks decision support feature that Bing has.
With decision support system added, Goggle’s new tweaked application will be much more fun to use.
