Google Image Search
:Google Image Search
Google has been simply phenomenal with their searching techniques and creativity to better understand how the end users will search in their engine. It has been reportedly told that Google Image Search is likely to include face-recognition technology along with many other brand new features to cut off the irrelevant images from news stories and websites.
The current features which are available now are actually based on technology from the company Neven Vision, which was acquired by Google in August 2006.
Users can search for a face with the tag &imgtype=face written right after the search query. For instance, a search related to NASCAR is likely to return several kinds of image including cars, event photos, logos etc. However with the special tag &imgtype=face written at the end of the search URL, it makes the same search show a different result. So the second search literally shows faces of people who are involved with NASCAR racing.
There is another search filter currently available in Google Image Search called &imgtype=news which can be used to find images of your search term with priorities given to images which are directly related to recent news or stories. For instance you can try to compare an image search for whales without the image search filter to the one with the filter. Because of the news tag, the filtered search result is likely to show photos related to recent news or stories on whales, while the plain image search result only includes many types of whale images.
For the time being Google has refused to comment on these changes, or to say if any other search tags are expected to be available for their image searches.
