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If you're not familiar with Flickr, you should check it out. It's a photo community that allows people to assign keywords (or "tags") to every photo they post. Flickr keeps track of which tags are closely associated (e.g., 80% of people who have photos tagged "red" also have photos tagged "school"), and when you search for a tag, it will also present you with related tags.

With that in mind, I've begun developing the Flickr Walkabout. It's far from done, so bear with me. Basically, you enter a word, and the Walkabout returns tags related to it. Then it builds a sideshow from photos tagged with those related terms. As the slideshow plays, you'll see a list of the related tags to the right of the images - you can click on one of those, and it will return a series of related tags for that word. It will build another slideshow, with more related, terms, with more slideshows, with more related terms … you get the idea.

Try it out. As I've said, it's far from done - keep your search term simple (a single word, no spaces, something general like "girl" or "red"). Enjoy.