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Retrievr – Sketch to search Flickr

Posted in Cool by Derek at 7:52 pm
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Searching Flickr via tags and descriptions is so 2005. Why not add a little more personality, a little more creativity, a little more entertainment value to your searches by doodling your search “term(s)” on a Flash based scratch pad? Sound interesting?

Retrievr does all of the above and provides hours and hours of amusement as you try and guess what types of images will be queried with your picaso-like doodle.

Try It

3 Responses to “Retrievr – Sketch to search Flickr”

  1. [...] retrievr nos permite buscar fotografías en Flickr bosquejando en un pad!! Según su autor, esta aplicación esta basada en un algoritmo utilizado también el conocido manejador de imagenes imgSeek. Interesante. Aunque los resultados son bastante aceptables, no creo que el uso practico sea demasiado (por ahora), pero si muy entretenido. [vía] [...]

  2. got80s says:

    Ok, that was wierd. Cool, but wierd. Maybe my vision is lacking but I don’t see how this tool would be useful outside of amusement.

  3. Derek says:

    who really is interested in staying productive while browsing flickr photostreams?

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