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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

"Google" – The first Google image for every word in the dictionary

If a picture says more than a thousand words - and current internet dynamics tend to agree - what would a visual guide to the English vocabulary, contemporary and 'webresentative', look like? Ben West and Felix Heyes, two artists and designers from London (UK), found out when they replaced the 21,000 words found in your everyday dictionary with whatever shows up first for each word in Google's image search. Behold Google - a 1240 page behemoth of JPGs, GIFs and PNGs in alphabetical order

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