Today in China

Google unofficially introduced a new feature in the Image Search Engine… the Facial Recognition!

Try this, go to the Google Image Search Engine and search for China. You will get maps of China, images of the Great Wall as well as some pictures with Chinese people.

Now, add “&imgtype=face” to the url. You will receive only mostly receive imagesof people!

Similarly, adding “&imgtype=news” will trigger a search of images related to Google News items only.

Source:
Ars Technica, 2007-05-30