MSN Live Search has joined both Exalead (Powered by LTU Technology), Google, and Freenet.de offering “face” search. As this Live Search blog entry points out, you can limit your image searches to those that contain a human face. They syntax is face:. You can also limit to portraits (filter:portraits) and (filter:bw) for black and white imagery. Yahoo has offered the black and white filter in a search string for some time, no syntax required. Another Yahoo example: Wallpaper Beatles.

As we note in this extended post about image searching, Germany’s Freenet.de has offered face recognition search for years. Freenet.de also offers OCR search that allows the searcher to find words “inside” of an image. Much more about these and other forms of image searching in this post (lots of demos, too!).

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