| 摘要 |
An Internet infrastructure supports searching of images by correlating a search image and/or search string with that of plurality of images hosted On Internet servers, supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search string or search image, and may contain images from a plurality of Internet servers. The image search server delivers a search result page containing images upon receiving a search string and/or search image from the web browser. The selection of images in the search result page is based upon: (i) word match, that is, by selecting images, titles of which correspond to the search string; and (ii) image correlation, that is, by selecting images, image characteristics of which correlates to that of search image. The selection of images in the search result page also occurs on the basis of popularity and may be refined by taking into account user feedback/preferences.
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