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Google Labs continues to fine tune the way you look for and view images on your PC. It started with the basic Image Search launched in 2001, which more recently involved into Similar Images. Taking it one step further, Google on Tuesday unveiled an experimental featured called Google Image Swirl.
"Once you find the group of images you're interested in, you can click on the thumbnail and a cluster of images will 'swirl' into view," Google wrote on its blog. "You can then further explore additional sub-groups within any cluster."
To make the effect possible, Google says it tapped into technologies developed for Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition. All of the thumbnails on the initial results page represents an algorithmically-determined group of images with a similar appearance and meaning.
As it stands, Image Swirl works for more than 200,000 search queries, with even more planned in the future, Google says.
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