Google, which is consistently improving how we search, has made finding images related to a particular subject easier with a new feature. Sometimes, it’s hard to come up with the exact words to describe what your looking for. Allowing you to sort by relevance or by subject gives you different options that get you closer to what you’re looking for.
When using a word or phrase to search in Google Images, the images are automatically sorted by relevance by default. If you click on the “sort by subject” button, Google will organize the search results into categories that are likely to relevant to what you’re looking for.
For example, searching for “London” will likely give you all kinds of different images. But, if you sort by a subject, you’ll get images of famous spots such as London Eye – the famous ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames – or London’s iconic Big Ben tower, or the London Bridge and images of the city at night.
This feature helps when you don’t remember the exact term for a dog breed, flower type or coffee that you’re looking for, but you can offer different variations of the term.
Even though it may seem like an easy task, this feature took expertise to create as linking images to a subject is a lot harder than most people think. “By looking at multiple sources of similarities, such as pixel values and semantic relationships, and by mining massive amounts of data, we can make meaningful connections and groupings among images,” said Google’s Donald Tanguay in a blog post.
This feature should be available to everyone soon, if not right now. Check out the video on how this feature works: