[OWW-Discuss] Image searching.

[Bill F]

The Google search api and the recent indexing of all of our content via
google including images means that we can come up with an image search with
OWW that displays the relevant images rather than a text pointer in the
not-too-distant future.

The Google Ajax Search API can be used with Javascript or any high-level
language. We could return the image results as a gallery of thumbnails. This
is a lot more useful than the current 'special page' search we are stuck
with.

One concern I have is that there's very little annotation of the uploaded
images we have within OWW. In that sense, we can get a lot more interesting
interaction but it can't come without making the way we capture images a lot
more expressive than it currently is.

If anyone has used Google Search APi in the past and would like to volunteer
to help us look into this, please let me know. This doesn't  just involve
programming: if you know this area and have an interest in helping out, let
me know.

If there are other non-Google alternatives you have experience with, we're
not wedded to Google!
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