Google Image Swirl was an enhancement to the image search tool that came out of Google Labs. It was built on top of image search by grouping images with similar visual and semantic qualities. Launched November 17, 2009; shut down July 20, 2011 — it lived 1 year. One of 26 Google products killed in 2011. Google Image Swirl was an enhancement for an image-search tool in Google Labs. It was announced on the Google labs blog on November 17, 2009 with a limited number of search queries available. It was built on Google image search by grouping together images with similar visual and semantic qualities. It was suggested that such interface and grouping could help resolve queries that can have multiple types of results, are ambiguous, such as Apple, Jaguar, etc., and explore images associated with various viewpoints. This feature is no longer available. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).