As of March 7th, Flickr rolled out a “similarity search” option that gives users the ability to go deeper into their initial set of search results by clicking on an image to find the photo they want. “Today, we’re introducing similarity search, which uses advanced technology to allow you to discover visually similar photos without much work […]

When Pinterest teased how it will bring its visual search engine to the real world back on February 8th, the social network and search engine extended its ability to turn images into search queries across the wider web. Pinterest started updating its browser extensions on Tuesday so that people can click on an image on any web page and be shown related […]

When it first came out, Pinterest was considered to be a “social scrapbooking” or photo-sharing site.  The CEO of Pinterest, Ben Silbermann has called it a “catalog of ideas.”  The company has, for the most part, shunned the “social network” label. Regardless of what they would be considered, Pinterest has increasingly become an image search […]

It looks like Pinterest is bringing search to the real world.  On Wednesday, the company introduced Lens, which is a mobile app that uses the phone’s camera to recognize physical objects and bring them up on Pinterest.  There are other features that have been announced by the compnay that now extend search beyond the query bar […]