Find Images with GazoPa
May 11, 2011
I recently was introduced to GazoPa, an interesting new Web site and venture project from Hitachi, the inspire the next company. (I think I know what that means.) GazoPa is self-described as:
a next generation similar image search engine that uses image features such as a color and a shape that are extracted from an image.
The photo bank is populated by the continuously crawling GazoPabot and at its completion will provide categories like sports, funny, and Flickr.
The site is uncluttered, so it wasn’t difficult to start poking around the features. It allows you to upload an image, enter an image URL or a keyword to find a similar image. Pretty simple. It even provides the tools to draw an image, paintbrush style, and use that as the baseline for a picture hunt.
My preliminary queries reaped entertaining results, which seems to be part of the sites M.O. considering the inclusion of its playful “shuffle” feature. I tested a sample image provided, scribbled my own and pitched up a keyword. Some of the returned images were pretty close, others I have no idea how they were tossed into the mix. Upon further investigation, the site’s FAQ details that their algorithm is improving with time and they are in the beta phase. So the quirkiness is to be expected, at least for a while.
Will this change the internet as we know it? Doubtfully, but it is cool way to leverage information in another format, and by someone other than Google and Microsoft.
Sarah Rogers, May 11, 2011
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