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POPSA Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Image Search Technology Historically, Internet search has been largely a text-centric process: Plug some words into the search box that you hope describe what you’re looking for, hit enter and wait to see what the lottery in the cloud coughs up. Sometimes what is retrieved is spot on. Other times, it’s off the mark but still somewhat useful. But more often than we’d like, what turns up is bubkes.