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Google Image Search

Find Your Doppelgänger!

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Our last post dealt with Google’s new search feature, allowing you to rapidly find details about just about any photo you drag and drop onto the search bar. Read about that here: Google Image Search   In that post, we used an image that we captured from a video, essentially something that didn’t exist anywhere else. Lo and behold, Google was able to match our photo with others from the same video.

That got us thinking about a game we could play among ourselves. We used this photo, the one from our About page, and dropped it into Google Image Search:

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The original image that we used for the search.

 

We thought it would be fun to see what Google came up with, as far as locating some faces that were similar. Everyone has a doppelgänger, they say, so we started looking for ours. Here’s what we saw:

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Google’s ‘similar’ photo result.

 

Maybe Google finds photos with similar lighting or facial angles, who knows? We won’t say anything about the three photos of women but, honestly, the one with the banana is pretty funny!  Have some fun with this. Share this story on Facebook and have your friends take the Doppelgänger Test.

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Google Image Search – an exciting new feature

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Everyone knows that Google search engine is the best, hands down. We’re betting that you didn’t know about Google’s new image search feature. It’s like magic, it really is. Here’s the scoop on it.

In this example we’re using a photo that we got from a screen capture of the Windows 8 advertising video. In other words, the photo that we used didn’t exist before we did the screen capture of it. You’ll see why this is significant in a moment. For now, here is the image that we needed details about:

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We didn’t know who the singer was. We thought it was Feist.

 

Who is the singer? Well, let’s see if Google can tell us. We opened up Google in our browser, then clicked the ‘image’ tab on the top.

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Make sure the Images tab is selected.

 

Next, we opened the folder where our image was saved, clicked on it once and dragged it into the search box on Google.

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Drag the unopened image onto the search bar.

 

Drag and drop, that’s what this is called. Drag the unopened picture file over to the search area (the one where you would normally type a word), and drop it there. Google uploads the pic to its servers and searches for similar or identical photos.

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Depending on the size of the photo and the speed of your Internet connection, this could take a little bit of time.

 

What did Google find with our home-made image? Well, it didn’t find the exact duplicate but Google did find many similar photos. Farther down the list, we discovered who the singer was.

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Lenka! That’s who it is!

 

Mystery solved. Lenka is the singer in this black and white music video, part of a Windows 8 advertising promotion.

Have some fun with this new Google search feature. We’re sure that you’ll find some fun and creative ways to use it.

Thanks for reading!