As an Investigator, one of the greatest problems is properly identifying the subject of your inquiries. You have to deal with misspelled names, incorrect dates of birth, generational designators, and many other obstacles to identifying the subject in your search results.
Face-filters help when you are looking for images and video. But how do you find your person in the thousands of search results that appear when you search by his name alone? Continue reading ‘Clustering Search Engines’
First Exalead adds a face filter, then Google, and now Live Search has jumped on the same band-wagon.
Add filter:face or filter:portrait to your search search strategy to get the face-filter results.
If you are looking for pictures of a particular person, then start your search in Google Image Search and the put “&imgtype=face” (without the quotation marks) at the end of the search results URL. This filter will then provide a new results page with only portrait-like pictures.
Try a search on paris. The results will relate to Paris (the City), France, the Eiffel Tower, Paris Hilton, etc.. A search on paris, but with “&imgtype=face” appended to the end, returns results mostly of Paris Hilton and other faces, because they match face results. Now try a search on google. Without the face filter you get screen captures of the Google home page. If you add the face filter parameter to the URL, you get pictures of people and faces related to Google.
I found an interface for the face filter, which does not require you to enter the filter to the URL, that appears to work very well.
While this Google filter works very well, it does not provide every usable picture for the person you are looking for. The picture has to be very much like a portrait to appear in the results of this filter. This is a good tool but it isn’t perfect, but then what is?