livescience.com— Polar Rose is a new search engine now being tested that will allow you to find anyone in any photo on any site.
Oct 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
More importantly, if you didn't want yourself indexed by the service you could tag lots of your own photos with other names and other photos with yours. Even if the site doesn't have an opt-out feature, you can still protect your own privacy.Of course, just like having an accurate wikipedia page on yourself, you have to both know about this particular site and go in and manually fix things yourself. This isn't the only site of it's kind, and there will probably be many more to come. As Tycho of Penny-Arcade.com said about wikipedia, you may have the ability to fix things yourself, but not everyone has time to babysit the internet.
sometimes I can barely recognize people I know in pictures because of the angles... one picture of someone can make them look totally different. I doubt a computer will be able to do much better.
tomfrostOct 9, 2006
Facebook has had a similar system for awhile as well. Highlight, tag, save.
kulpreetsinghOct 9, 2006
So people could tag pictures of GW Bush with ... "This is Snoop Dogg" and Donald Rumsfeld with "This is Jessica Simpson"? :)
terrab0tOct 9, 2006
More importantly, if you didn't want yourself indexed by the service you could tag lots of your own photos with other names and other photos with yours. Even if the site doesn't have an opt-out feature, you can still protect your own privacy.Of course, just like having an accurate wikipedia page on yourself, you have to both know about this particular site and go in and manually fix things yourself. This isn't the only site of it's kind, and there will probably be many more to come. As Tycho of Penny-Arcade.com said about wikipedia, you may have the ability to fix things yourself, but not everyone has time to babysit the internet.
jrr6415sunOct 10, 2006
sometimes I can barely recognize people I know in pictures because of the angles... one picture of someone can make them look totally different. I doubt a computer will be able to do much better.
Closed AccountOct 10, 2006
-digg down :(