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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