It seems Google is set on making December 2008 known as the month where they upgraded everything.

We’ve already seen Google do things like add PDF reading in Gmail, Chrome exiting Beta mode, adding to-do lists in Gmail and a whole slew of other things, but now they are upgrading their original business, search products.  According to the Official Google Blog, Google has now upgraded their image search

Image Search is a popular of finding images for your blog, presentation and so on, but up until now the results have been spotty at best, and not always the most helpful.  Now your results should be far more relevant as the system will also try to match up similar lines and designs in the images and be able to see that they are somehow related.  You can see an example provided by Google at the right.

Considering some of the odd ball things I have seem turn up in image searches, this is a great, and much needed, upgrade to the popular search tool.