Search isn't just about text anymore. At the Cebit trade show in Germany, Vodafone is demonstrating Otello, a search engine that uses images as input.
Instead of entering a word or phrase users send pictures via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) from their mobile phones.
The picture can be anything from a historical building to a CD cover, according to Vodafone. Otello then returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone, just like a normal search engine.
Vodafone's reasoning behind image search is that it's more convenient to take a picture than to enter search terms with a phone that lacks a normal keyboard.
View: The New York Times
Instead of entering a word or phrase users send pictures via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) from their mobile phones.
The picture can be anything from a historical building to a CD cover, according to Vodafone. Otello then returns information relevant to the picture to the mobile phone, just like a normal search engine.
Vodafone's reasoning behind image search is that it's more convenient to take a picture than to enter search terms with a phone that lacks a normal keyboard.
View: The New York Times
Take picture of a girl...locate her on myspace...study myspace...then go upto her again as a"soulmate" that also likes:
puppies, the Cure, fried balogna sandwiches, pokemon
Mnah...no one would use it that way
maybe it only works with pictures, not the objects that the pictures are taken of... to be able to recognize real objects is something called heuristics , but i think that this service would be more like comparing the picture you sent and another picture stored in its database, so yeah its good for cd covers and the like
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