It was 1999, when I came to know about Google search engine. Prior to that, I used either Yahoo or Lycos engine for searching web. Gradually, Google added many features to the searching mechanism, and rarely I tried any other search engine since I started using it. Among these features, the ones that I often used is 'site:' for searching at a particular website, searching in other languages, quotes for exact search, and '-' for exclusion in search string. All these are now explained in the advanced search page.
However, till last year, I never though that it would be possible to search by an image. One of my colleagues taught me how to do that: using tineye. Now, Google Images page also has this new feature: where we can search by an image as opposed to searching by some text. Not only that, I can even drag an image to the search box. If dragging is not possible, e.g. for an image shared in Facebook that is not public, it can be saved to hard disk and then searching by image is possible by upload the file in Google Image: using the camera button/icon in the search box.
I tried searching with my 2006 image, when I used to keep the mustache. Though Google Image search could not access any web page where this image is used except my twitter page, it displayed pictures of few people who look alike myself. I was impressed with that output: I believe I have some visual similarity with these people.
I started shaving off the mustache one year back from now. At that time I realized, I had very close facial similarity with my father. And I never realized that before even though my mother mentioned it once or twice. Funny thing is that when I searched using this image, which is used in my Google pages, it included a pic of Barack Obama among my lookalikes. I am elated.
However, till last year, I never though that it would be possible to search by an image. One of my colleagues taught me how to do that: using tineye. Now, Google Images page also has this new feature: where we can search by an image as opposed to searching by some text. Not only that, I can even drag an image to the search box. If dragging is not possible, e.g. for an image shared in Facebook that is not public, it can be saved to hard disk and then searching by image is possible by upload the file in Google Image: using the camera button/icon in the search box.
I tried searching with my 2006 image, when I used to keep the mustache. Though Google Image search could not access any web page where this image is used except my twitter page, it displayed pictures of few people who look alike myself. I was impressed with that output: I believe I have some visual similarity with these people.
I started shaving off the mustache one year back from now. At that time I realized, I had very close facial similarity with my father. And I never realized that before even though my mother mentioned it once or twice. Funny thing is that when I searched using this image, which is used in my Google pages, it included a pic of Barack Obama among my lookalikes. I am elated.
