gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » people search http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Searching Faces at FaceSaerchhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/searching-faces-at-facesaerch/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/searching-faces-at-facesaerch/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:38:11 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5853 Yes that is no type there in the title of this article. The website FaceSaerch offers a face search interface and search engine that displays pictures of people that it found while looking for the phrase that the user has entered. It is a bit surprising that the search box accepts not only names but also any other input.

Entering Kill Bill for instance displays lots of pictures of actors that played in that movie. The search engine is pretty good at finding pictures of celebrities but I had less luck finding pictures of ordinary people. I checked some random Facebook profile pages and tried to find the pictures with the search engine but ran out of luck.

That’s a little bit surprising because FaceSaerch is using Google Images and their &imgtype=face parameter to find matching faces. The interface is pretty slick and has some nice effects when flipping through the hits.

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It’s possible to turn safesearch off in the options which are located in the about page of the website. Deeply hidden I would say. Facesaerch provides several comfortable tools like adding widgets to another website or using RSS Feeds for searches.

An alternative would be Piclens but that would require an installation. FaceSaerch works just like it is.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/searching-faces-at-facesaerch/feed/ 5 Stalkerati Search for people on the webhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/31/stalkerati-search-for-people-on-the-web/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/31/stalkerati-search-for-people-on-the-web/#comments Wed, 31 May 2006 07:38:38 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/31/stalkerati-search-for-people-on-the-web/ Stalkerati is not your usual search engine that lets you search for long lost friends, relatives and the like. It instead tries to accumulate as much data about a person as possible and save that data in a neat profile on their website. It collects data from various sources including myspace, facebook, friendster, a web and blog search and finally a photo and image search.

Some ressources that are neatly displayed in tabs require you to have an account with the service in order to see the data collected (facebook for example). I personally think that this is a great service just for funs sake. I don´t think it´s more efficient than a “normal” search on the web. Great for parents who want to check about their kids on the web.

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