The things that Google comes up with are pretty scary. The Street View on Google Maps is pretty cool, but it’s starting to feel a lot like Big Brother around here. It appears that when searching for images you now have the ability to get pictures of just faces by adding this tid-bit to your search, “&imgtype=face”. Voila, stalking on the internet has gotten that much easier. I apologize if anyone has an epileptic seizure because of the image.
Google enables face recognition in Image Search? [Lifehacker]
oh god it burns! turn it off!
I agree with the premise – that Google comes up with some scary stuff – but they didn’t actually come up with street view. Just sayin’.
Yeah, I seem to remember Google buying some company that made image recognition software a while ago.
But, then again, who /hasn’t/ Google bought still?