The Search Engine Update, December 4, 2000, Number 90
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Current edition of the Search Engine Report, containing news and the latest happenings about search engines.
View ArticleMore than Organizing Photos? Google Acquires Neven Vision
I made a list of the patents I could find and some of the details about them in Google Acquires Neven Vision: Adding Object and Facial Recognition Mobile Technology . I first read about this...
View ArticleSearching Rich Media at TechCrunch50
Now he in charge of Google Gadgets and recently oversaw the integration of facial recognition software in Picassa. For a number of years I worked at MIT on image recognition technology and the first...
View ArticleSearching Rich Media at TechCrunch50
Now he in charge of Google Gadgets and recently oversaw the integration of facial recognition software in Picassa. For a number of years I worked at MIT on image recognition technology and the first...
View ArticleFacial Recognition Software Being Used To Take Attendance
Facial recognition software has been made popular from various crime shows, but it seems the real thing is now being used to take attendance at a university in the UK. Four years ago there were search...
View ArticleFacebook's Face Recognition Tagging Feature Signalling Photo Search?
Full Facial Recognition ? Facebook is currently testing a new feature for pictures that allows automatic recognition of faces and subsequent faster tagging of photos, thanks to newly-acquired...
View ArticleUsing Emotional Recognition Metrics For Marketing Campaigns
Facial features are universal and recognizable across cultures and genders. Hence, facial emotions can be decrypted and analyzed through Affective Interfaces' tools. With such qualitative data...
View ArticleAugmented Reality (AR): A New World Order - SES San Francisco
Facial recognition and social mining are also interesting AR developments, but the idea is a little scary and opens up a can of worms where privacy is concerned. It uses object recognition to trigger AR.
View ArticleSearchDay: Melba Toast Edition - May 19, 2011
Facebook recognizes their own users on any website. Yandex aiming to IPO. LinkedIn did IPO. Google Comparison Ads get an official destination page. Local market set to grow every year. SEO industry...
View ArticleHow to Disable Facebook Facial Recognition
Facebook's latest announcement is less than transparent about the fact that faces are now being scanned with facial recognition software. Furthermore, Facebook has set your privacy controls as if you...
View ArticlePrivacy Regulators See Red Over Facebook Facial Recognition
Facebook is coming under attack from European Union regulators questioning its intrusion in to users' privacy. Facebook gave information to the EU shortly after the investigation started and may face a...
View ArticleGoogle Inside Search Event Recap: What's New in Mobile, Voice & Image Search
Mobile search took center stage at yesterday's Google Inside Search Event. In addition to debuting new technology, Google also announced that some mobile features are coming to PCs, including voice...
View ArticleGoogle Buys Facial Recognition Company PittPatt
Google has picked up a facial recognition group known as PittPatt. PittPatt's technology is likely to be used in Google+, although the potential applications are broad.
View ArticleReal Names: Google+, Government & The Identity Ecosystem
Why is Google motivated to take such a hard line on identifying people by their real name on Google+? The simple answer, perhaps, is that Google and the government both want to make the Internet more...
View ArticleFacebook and Google Execs Equally Suck at Social Media
Google is catching a lot of flack for their management team’s lackluster performance on Google+. Other execs are standing behind their product, it’s been said. Not at Facebook. Google and Facebook...
View ArticleYandex Adds Face Recognition Technology
Russian search giant Yandex has added facial recognition technology to its photo hosting service, Yandex.Fotki. Yandex is leveraging Face.com's facial recognition technology to create a "smart" photo...
View ArticleFacebook Settles Privacy Lawsuit, Buys Facial Recognition Company Face.com
Facebook has been ordered to pay $10 million to charity to settle a U.S. lawsuit over Sponsored Stories for using images of users without compensation or offering an opt out. Facebook has also acquired...
View ArticleSuperfish Debuts ShapeRank for Visual Search; Near Matches More Exciting Than...
With the explosion of visual content orientated social networks such as Pinterest, visual search seems to be back on the agenda. Visual search company, Superfish, have announced an update that could...
View ArticleGoogle: No Plans for Glass Facial Recognition Apps (At This Time)
Google has told the world that it will not approve any facial recognition software for Glass until it's had time to have a good think about it. Officially, Google says it "won't be approving any facial...
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