Google's new foray into image search

R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shared some details of future versions of image search. In the interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Pittman said that Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. In addition images can be matched with display ads and utilize geotagging information for various applications.

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[Manhattan2]

We call our tool ImageIdentifier.com or PictureRecognition.com and it will be deployed with GPSimaging.com to analyze the millions of images we have in our growing private database. When and how those images and the data analysis we have archived from those images, will go public is still under consideration. No one has seen what we have seen at GPSimaging.com. It is not just about the images.

[CherokeeBrave]

That would be cool. I thought of the same thing a year or so ago and wished there was a way to provide a photo and see where it originally came from or came to be. Perhaps linked to an article I read and forgot. Even more recently a friend I added that showed me her picture on yahoo and I still swear I saw that same face somewhere else cowgirl hat and all. It's not unheard of for someone to try and look better than they actually are to someone else. My gimick is simply use an older picture of myself, not pick a more than handsome face off the internet.
I can see how in the world of robotics it would be a boon to their inteligence to have a memory. I'm too poor to be able to use face/object recognition in highly sofisticated technology.