Real-Time Image Search Engine Nachofoto Reviewed

Many of you may have already seen this article.  I’ve long been interested in image or media search.  It’s not a clear cut subject. In fact, I wrote a paper on it when completing my MS - MLIS, Master of Library and Information Science degree.  I’m hoping to post that soon.  What’s important to keep in mind in regard to image or media search via the web is that the web is not built on a controlled vocabulary.  So, in other words, images can be put on the web with little or no identifying information about them.  Even worse, in relation to spam, images can be put on the web with incorrect identifying information!  This may include either embedded metadata or just contextual information (information giving clues that surround the image such as a title or text). 

That said, I hope to post more on image search in the near future.  But, in the mean time, it’s good to keep up to date on new web image search technology.  Nachofoto focuses on “real-time” image search.  So, great for news and trending topics.  I’ve pasted in some text from a great article from Search Engine Watch at: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100503-131819.  Make sure you check out the full article!

Article:

Nachofoto Real-Time Image Search Lives Up to The Hype

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100503-131819

Nachofoto is a real-time image search engine that allows you to sift through the web for the most recent and relevant results for popular search queries, i.e. "fresh" pictures of trending topics. SEW puts the new search engine through it's paces on a very recent event, the "Times Square bomb alert".

How it works

Nachofoto's tool relies on four factors:


    * What the company calls "recency factor" or "freshness" (much friendlier term, I agree) of an image that the semantic text analysis algorithm can determine

    * The image density of a webpage that allows for prioritizing in favour of highest quality pictures

    * The inward links - yes, watch your inward links anchor texts as they will weigh substantially in the choice

    * Domain authority, defined by Nachofoto as "domains with fresh, family friendly high density images".