Tiltomo.com - A New Visual Search Engine

Tiltomo is a visual search engine that will empower you to look up images related to any given picture. This solution is currently in beta, and for the time being it carries out searches using two sample databases from Flickr.

Getting started couldn’t be easier, as you just furnish any keyword that interests you or click on the “random” button. Once the results are displayed, you will be able to employ any of the two featured “Find Similar” modes and proceed from there. These are a subject search, and a color/texture analyzer. In actuality, the subject search also takes into account color and texture, but the theme is prioritized.

Other particularity of the theme search is that you can visualize images that come from a specific photographer. In order to do so, you simply click on the link that reads “Show only images from the reference photographer”.

This new resource is clearly in a preliminary stage, but the basic idea can already be grasped and understood. It will be interesting to see the contour it eventually acquires, and how comprehensive can the search process become in the future.

“Our aim is to develop a Visual Search tool that makes it easier to find the images you like. Our approach is to allow free thinking, where search results are influenced by what you see. Our system encourages you to make a broad search and narrow the types of images you like. It's as simple as searching a keyword, then clicking the image you like. to see more. We feel this way of searching allows you to follow your own creative path, and find images that you might not normally look for.”

It can give any internaut the wherewithal to look up related media in a very supple fashion.

When is the next major update coming along?