Yahoo! has added a ‘travel image refiner’ to picture search queries for definite destinations, which, in their own words, allows you to “take a virtual tour of popular points of interest when you search for a destination in Yahoo! Image Search.”

Yahoo! Travel Image Refiner

A query for ‘Las Vegas’ on Yahoo’s image search, as you can see above, shows up a sidebar on the left which links to categorized photo collections of the most popular places and attractions in Sin City.

A blog post on the Yahoo! Search blog, where this tweak was announced, says that “The Yahoo! Image Search refiner is currently available for location-specific searches, but we are planning to expand this skill to other types of image searches as well.”

While Google’s image search does not offer a similar refining feature (for the reason that yet), they do offer it Google Maps, where if you search for a specific destination or address, you get results on the left sidebar somewhat similar to Yahoo’s refiner.

Google Maps snapshot

Shouldn’t take too long in favor of Google to extend this offering to image search – if they feel the need to do so. Also, in case you’re wondering, Yahoo! launched this feature before the Microsoft-Yahoo search firm deal was made public. So it’s possible that this could fizzle out, but on merit – it’s a good thing for image search.

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