You may remember using the beautiful Cover Flow interface in iTunes or the iPod touch that helps you quickly browse through your music and video collection - now a similar interface is available for viewing faces on Google Images.
Go to facesaerch.com (not facesearch.com), type the name / surname of a person and start flipping the facial images served from Google Images. You can either drag the slider or use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate through the images.
And while you can search for anything, facial search on Google Images works best if you look for a real person. For instance, typing "Crow" would not looking for images of the bird "crow" but a person with crow in his or her name - like Sheryl Crow.
You may also Google Face search to determine if a person is male or female based on the first name and / or surname.
Internally, the above Face Search tool uses Protoflow which is a JavaScript library that emulates the Cover Flow effect in a browser.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/pictures/browse-images-google-face-search-itunes-cover-flow/3463/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Amit, very interesting! Yet, I haven’t found my face, because I am not a celebrity(yet):
But, I found your photo, there! Thanks for this tool!
Written by adam on 05.30.08
Not even close to being as good as: link
Written by Dale on 05.30.08
i totally agree with Dale.. piclens is so slick
Written by Supreet Sharma on 05.30.08
hi, facesaerch offers some (alpha) piclens / mediaRSS support, just turn it on in the options link so you can switch the images to piclens if you want to.
saddly the piclens icons displayed with images do not support moving images - thats why default its turned off.
even though, facesaerch / piclens it’s not a competition, its a synergy.
Written by Franz on 05.31.08
Site is good but interface is very slow.. and irritates to make any more query. Looks like it uses jQuery…
Written by Kevin on 06.01.08