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Like.com, an image search engine, has launched today. What makes it a bit different from, say, Google Images is that it can take images as well as text as queries. For an example, see the Techcrunch post and the resulting search on Like.com 
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Their marketing’s working well, then. Like.com were called Riya until recently and changed the name (probably with good reason). I wondered some time ago whether they would make it possible to search for images which were ‘like’ the Eiffel Tower, the Brandenburg Gate etc, etc:
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2005/12/riya_flickr_wit_1.html
I don’t think they’ve done that yet but hope they will