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Google Image Search Meeting Image Ads

Display advertising, where Google does not shine as brightly as it does in search ads, could be coming to the image searching side of the site.

Google Sheds More Light On VisualRank

Researchers for Google recently presented a paper on applying the company's PageRank technology to the world of product image search.

Photoshop Express Drives Online

Adobe released its latest rich Internet application, an online version of its signature image manipulation program, Photoshop.

French Girls Find 'Appiness On Google Maps

That it's near the corner of Cedar and Shaft doesn't help, and that Google Maps picked it up makes it a legendary prank. And if aliens happened to be flying over Hazelton, Pennsylvania around the same time the aerial photograph was taken, this is what they saw.

Google Chart API Released

Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added)

Digg Adds Images Category

It seems like Digg users have been asking for–and Kevin Rose promising–a category for images and photos forever. Well the long wait is now over and you can finally uploaded your favorite lolcats image. At the Digg blog, Kevin Rose announces the launch of image support and also better organization of existing categories. Here’s what Digg users are waking up to today:

Digg Scoops Up Images, Tweaks Categories

It took a while but Digg finally has an images category available for contributions and sharing with other Diggers.

Google Image Search Gets Closer To Picasa

On Picasa’s homepage, a slogan proclaims, “Fast and easy photo sharing from Google.”  The exchange now seems to work in the other direction, as well, since Picasa results have been integrated into Google Image Search.

Microsoft JPEG XR Approved As New Image Standard

Joint Photographic Experts Group, which owns the JPEG standard, has voted to make Microsoft’s HD Photo their new standard, under the name JPEG XR.

High Resolution "Last Supper" Image To Go On Net

A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's "Last Supper" will be posted on the Internet Saturday October 27 by an Italian technology company providing fodder for art enthusiasts and conspiracists.