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All Your Face Are Belong to Us

Written By
Steve Bryant
Steve Bryant
May 29, 2007
1 minute read
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That headline joke never gets old.

Via Google Blogoscoped forums via Google Operating System, the news that Google image search now lets you restrict searches to faces. The implementation is still being tested, apparently, hence the awkward controls: You have to insert &imgtype=face in the URL query string.

And so, the normal results for the query “fat”:

And the modified results, searching for faces:

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