How to Search For Faces On Google Image Search
Are there occasions when you’re searching for someone’s photo on Google Image Search, but something else shows up in the results?
In order to improve Google Image Search and Picasa, Google acquired Neven Vision last year for their image object recognition technology (old news, but may be new to someone).
To search faces on Google Image Search, just do the following:
- Simply add ‘&imgtype=face’ behind your search URL.
- For example, you are searching for a person with the last name “Burger”. The results will just be pictures of burgers or people eating burgers. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=burger produces:

After you add the ‘&imgtype=face’ parameter at the back of your search URL, pictures of person with the name “Burger” will be shown instead. See below:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=burger&imgtype=face produces:

via TechBuzz | Posted by Vincent Chow
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Comment by Brown Baron on 2 June 2007:
Never knew that. Seems to be a pretty useful tip. Hey, good to see you here Vincent!
Comment by Vincent Chow on 2 June 2007:
Helpful when one met with situation mentioned above. Knew you’re a loyal Connected Internet reader long ago
Comment by chan on 3 June 2007:
I’ve never seen before
Thanks