Yahoo Lauches Search Assist For Photos. Mildly Impressive

Yahoo launches its latest addition to search technology by introducing photo thumbnail reccomendations for image search.
Why is this important? Because with the evergrowing database of images growing, conflicting results has become a problem. For example, when I search ‘Yahoo’, it may show me images of the company logo, or a bunch of people having a great time at a party. The image reccomendation will allow me to break my search down by selecting the correct photo type.
Yahoo is still in this search game for the long haul. This is their second major improvement since they began offering ‘real-time’ keyword reccomendations when beginning to type in a query.
Unofrtunately, Yahoo image search has never done a good job of returning enough images. This technology may help, but it still lacks the indexing capilities that Google offers. Overall, I’m mildly impressed. TC