# Did I imagine this strange image search engine?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-strange-image-search-engine/718260 "2015-04-22T05:10:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Willcross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Willcross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willcross)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-strange-image-search-engine/718260/1 "2015-04-22T05:10:06Z")

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Maybe I’m dreaming this. I seem to remember an image search engine that worked like no other I had ever seen. You typed in normal tags and it would return a bank of images. You then clicked the one that looks most like it, and it returns a refined bank of similar images, you then clicked the one most like your image and it returned a similar image.

Did this really exist?

For example, let’s say I wanted an image of a red corvette in Tokyo.

I would type “car”. Then it would return random images of different cars. I would click on a red one. It would return several images of red cars. I would scroll until I found a corvette. It would return several images of red corvettes. I would scroll until I found one with a city scape in the background. It would return similar images etc etc.

It wasn’t really useful but it was fun. At least I think it was?

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**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-strange-image-search-engine/718260/2 "2015-04-22T05:21:45Z")

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Is it this one? [http://taggalaxy.de/](http://taggalaxy.de/)

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**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-strange-image-search-engine/718260/3 "2015-04-22T18:01:44Z")

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That is a pretty cool web site.