Google Images JavaScript API Integration
Summary
Google has become the dominant player in search. Their algorithm that places value to relevant parts of a website or webpage has become the envy of the search engine space, however less emphasis has been placed by the general public on their powerful image search.
The Google Image Search has become one of it's most powerful uses for designers, graphic artists, and average users who are searching for something visual, rather than textual. Much like YouTube is the video search of Google, their Image Search has brought the capability to search through billions of photos indexed all over the internet within seconds. Being able to visually index and catalog images based on search criteria like tags, photographic elements like black & white or the image context, and even the size of the image, has given Google an extra edge in the search engine space.
Integration
Our integration with the Google Image Search is similar to that of our integration with YouTube, Google has one of the largest catalogs of images available online, and their decision to create an open API to search through those images has given us the opportunity to integrate this functionality into your community.
Through our integration, relying on the same principles as the YouTube integration of traversing JSON data from Google servers, your community will be able to do instant searches from within your branded community, embed photos, crop them, resize them, and rotate them.
This functionality gives your community more options. One of the most difficult things with sharing images online comes from finding the resources you want to share. Whether it is a picture of the moon, or of a cricket, finding the image, downloading it, re-uploading it, and then sharing it with a community, is riddled with barriers. Our integration gives your community the option to find a picture of the moon within 3 clicks, and embed it with an extra one.
Result
The result of our integration will lead to a more vibrant community, with much more media. Social Media is all about giving your community a gateway to express themselves within your organizations social context. With our Google Images integration, your community will be able to quickly find the images they want, and share them with each other.
Even more powerful, is that your community will be able to do so within your branded community. They will not need to leave your brand, image, or even website or domain to do so. All interaction is seamless, and will bring a sense of authority to your brand and community.
