Visual search of countries and cities

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Do you know what your dream car looks like? Telephone? An ideal vacation spot? It often happens that, imagining an image, we cannot find it in real life. And all because we do not know what to call it, whether it is a city or a car brand.

We decided to conduct an experiment - to do a search "from the opposite." Using visual search , selecting images that are similar to the desired image, you can find objects. And for this you do not need to formulate requests.

The earth is big and very different, so we decided to start from the picturesque places of our planet. Now, to find a country where you want to go on vacation, or maybe stay there, it’s enough to select the most beautiful picture from the four proposed several times. Watching wonderful views is much more fun than coming up with requests for an unknown land. After that, a visual search will calculate the most attractive cities and countries for you. You will see all the pictures with names you like and can go into the traditional search with ready-made queries.



Visual search is based on a conventional image search . The main difference is that the search engine itself sets the queries. During one session (from the selection of the first picture to the final result), more than 50 requests are set. With each step of the user, the geography of the search is narrowed based on the preferences expressed (by choosing a picture).

An experimental search was launched just a week ago, but now there are interesting results: most users, focusing only on images, choose Russia and Germany. Do you already know the country of your dreams ?


Liya Karepova and the Pictures Search Team


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