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While defining web 2.0 as mainly a marketing term Eric Schmidt of Google answers what he feels will me the next evolution of the internet, otherwise know as Web 3.0.

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In a move perhaps indicative of their plans for their recent purchase of facial recognition company Neven Vision, Google now allows users of their image search to search for faces of specific individuals. This is different than simply looking for an individual in the sense that Google now seems to be able to identify the difference between a photo of a face vs. a photo of an individual.

Compare these two image search results - for our favorite jailbird “Paris Hilton”.

Normal Image Search

Face Image Search

If you look at the syntax in the code you will see this operator at the end of the query. “imagetype=face”. It currently appears that Google is still using the content of the page itself to determine the content of the image however in the future the technology acquired from Neven Visions would allow it to determine the content of the image from the image itself.

Let’s hope Big Brother truly does no evil.

PS - if you want to try out these searches for yourself simply copy the text below and replace the part i have put in bold with your own desired person.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=paris hilton&btnG=Search%2BImages&gbv=2&imgtype=face

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