Art on Google Search: Some are drawn to the bold strokes of Van Gogh's The Starry Night, others prefer to gaze at the pretentious glory of Klimt's The Kiss, but one thing is for sure: people love art. In fact, more than 500 million art-related searches are performed on Google's search engine every month. Now if you are a casual fan of hers art or a culture geek, Google can help you become an art expert.
From today, when looking for art-related issues, you will have access to more relevant results and the ability to explore deeper issues for which you are interested. Google also added a new feature to Street View ("think digital museum guide!") That gives you basic knowledge of artworks on your virtual visits to museums.
Explore more about art through Google Search
To help you make your art search a… masterpiece, the Google Arts & Culture team has joined forces with Google search engineers to improve the way Google systems understand and recognize works of art. the places we can see them up close, the artists who created them, the materials they used, the artistic period they belong to and the connections between them all.
Now when you search for an artist like Gustav Klimt, you will see an interactive panels information that will point out ways you can explore at a higher level, such as seeing a collection of artists' work or even touring museums where you can see the paintings on the wall. And for some projects, you can click to view the image in high resolution from Google Arts & Culture.
Google Arts & Culture, the virtual museum guide
You can visit hundreds of museums around the world from your laptop with Google Maps and Google Arts & Culture. Starting today, your virtual Street View tour is more informative on its screen computer and in the Chrome browser on mobile. Now as you navigate museum rooms on Google Maps you'll see clear and helpful comments on the wall next to each work.
Clicking on these comments will take you to a new page with more information provided by hundreds of well-known museums. You'll also be able to zoom in on high-resolution images - bringing you closer to these iconic works than you ever imagined.
To create these characteristics, Google launched its visual recognition software. A software similar to how machine learning technology allows you to search for files in your photo collection on Google Photos, this software scanned the walls of museums around the world, identifying and categorizing more than 15.000 works.
Discovering the world of art has never been easier on Google, and Google hopes this will inspire you to brush up on your knowledge of art. So find some time. Go deep. And who knows, with a… stroke of luck you might be drawn to the art.
