Here’s some interesting stuff I’ve come across these few days! The Poignant Guide to Ruby is highly recommended. P/S: Ruby is a programming language.
Oh, today I just discovered that Google allows color search.
For example, you search for Fire. Your query looks like this
http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=fire
but but..I want much hotter fire I said, I want blue fire!
So you add a imgcolor=blue to the query.
http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=fire&imgcolor=blue
And there you got your blue fire.
You could also combine colors search with comma.
http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=fire&imgcolor=blue,pink
Alternatively, you can just query for blue fire 
Anyway, my point is I discovered Google could do that today!
Ok, I find the fire option a bit lame. Let’s have another more pratical example. Say I wanted to search for a laptop with erm..pink color, rather than browsing through a whole 10 pages of search results, I specify pink color and I get what I want, I’m happy, Google is happy.
P/S: If you’re curious and interested in how Google’s image color recolonization algorithm work, visit this paper(pdf) published by Google engineers Henry Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, and Dr. Yushi Jing.
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what difference does it make, if i just type Blue Fire in the search box?
That’s why I said the fire example is lame. I guess it’s good at times if you really want to search for something in a particular color.
cool, even the advanced google image search page doesnt have this option yet
BLUE bird will be a good example.
i think this function only apply for image searching, so you can go to this link: http://images.google.com/ and search for the color object you look for.