When the searcher e-mailed me that Helen wanted to see photos, I waited for weeks, though all I had to do was drag an image into an e-mail.
For example, he said, many people don't realize that they can drag an image into the search box to find out what it is, rearrange news results by date or convert 20,000 leagues to miles.
Now showing a demo of Gmail, used drag-and-drop (File API) to drag an image into a new message.
Drag an image into it from the desktop, another application (like iPhoto) or from a web page and it presents it for editing.
Drag an image from your desktop into the search box, and Google will attempt to identify what it is and bring up relevant results.
Or, hey, if you're lazy, you can always just drag an image into the Google search bar and let the search engine scramble to figure out just what it is.
That means that if I want to drag an image of some shoes I'm interested in over to my corner of the Surface, the screen immediately recognizes the direction of my finger (and thus, which direction I happen to be facing) and can realign the image to face me.
Unfortunately, one of the most exciting features shown in the video – the ability to drag an image directly into a chat window – isn't part of the default Community IM platform (it was a custom addition Meebo added within a few hours for the Hack Day competition).
At the press conference, Googlers even demonstrated a very complicated voice search query: "How do I say how do I get a cheeseburger in this neighborhood in Spanish?" Search by Image on desktop: Chrome users can now drag an image into the search box and figure out information from that image.
defer.add img); If you chose "Picture", drag an image to the box at the right.
