The Live Search Blog announced new image search features over the weekend. The new features include a way to search for images of people by face, portrait, black & white and related people.

Here are examples of the new features in action, by searching for [paris]:

• pairs without any filter, mostly shows Paris Hilton but does show an image of the Eiffel Tower
• paris filter:face mostly shows face shots of Paris Hilton
• paris filter:portrait shows more full body shows of Paris Hilton
• paris filter:bw shows images of Paris Hilton, the Eiffel Tower and other images in black and white
• The related people offered for the paris search include: Paris Hilton, Banksy, Danger Mouse, Ice Cube, Greg Wells, Fat Joe, Kara DioGuardi, Scott Storch, MC Ren, Immortal and others…

Google Operating System has a nice comparison of Live Search Face Filter compared to Google’s recently released Face filter.

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Microsoft: Bing Image Search | Search Engines: Photo & Image Search

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