It’s hard to imagine the internet without being able to search for images, but it really wasn’t that long ago when all search results were just plain text. Now, less than two decades after those humble text SERPs, technology is quickly moving beyond the world of merely looking for images, but rather leaping into the organic cosmos of the visual search with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).
Image search beginnings
It all started back in 2000, when the buzz around Jennifer Lopez’s cut-to-her-navel dress that she wore to the Grammys literally overloaded the then text-only Google search engine.
