QuickLinks For 2007-09-12, II

• Multi-Language Image Search Tool:
  PanImages is a new search project coming out of the University of Washington that allows users to search for images in their native language and receive far more results than with traditional search.
  An image search on Google for "flower" returns results that have the tag "flower" in the photo metadata - 11.4 million results. But if you only speak Spanish, a search for "flores" returns just 2.2 million results.
  PanImages, by contrast, supports over 300 languages. Users simply type in the query and the language they are speaking and see a result set that includes translations. Clicking on a result returns Google Image and Flickr search results for that term.
  An images search for the Zulu word for refrigerator [a very common search query] returns just two results. A similar search on PanImages returns 472,000 results.
  Michael Arrington/TechCrunch (abbreviated; links to the 11.4/2.2 million results provided by TC are not working properly).

• Beverly Spicer blogs Visa Pour L'Image:
  Body at home, Mind in Perpignan: A grueling 30-hour ordeal brought me back to Texas, and my major complaint was that it was way too soon to leave France, Perpignan, and the festival. It took a few days to get truly oriented, to find our way around the paths in the Centre de Ville and the streets of Perpignan and surrounding area, so it was a shame for it to be over just as it seemed it had truly begun.
  The blog of the The Digital Journalist with the apparently most extensive live coverage of Perpignan 2007.
  And -- they are celebrating that the "The Digital Journalist is 10 years old" now.