Live Image Search Adds Face, Portrait, B/W, & Related Features
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 […]
Barry Schwartz on July 30, 2007 at 8:12 am | Reading time: 1 minute
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.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.