Image Search via Gazopa

TechCrunch reports this morning that Hitachi's Gazopa similar image search engine has entered open beta testing. It's a great concept,  but based on a few test searches I conducted, I think it could use a bit more tweaking.

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The above search also returned a photo of two women kissing, with a similarity of 66%. If you consider that I am one-third of the searched photo, I suppose that's pretty accurate.

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Disturbing Update

I just searched on my Twitter avatar - results include two blondes in leather micro-minis and Mel Gibson's mug shot. I'm not sure which is worse...