Google Sort of Enables Face Recognition When Searching Images
- May 31st, 2007
- 3 Comments

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]










bpm2000 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
oh god it burns! turn it off!
Cosmic (Who am I?)
1 year ago
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’.
Jarett (Who am I?)
1 year ago
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?