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http://namestofaces.com

by LogicLrd • 14 years ago

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namestofaces.com

nyellin• 14 years ago

How does this work?

Jeremy007• 14 years ago

Bing image search API: http://www.bing.com/developers/s/APIBasics.html

LogicLrd2• 14 years ago

Haha..good work Jeremy. It is in fact using Bing as sadly enough Google has retired their image search api: https://developers.google.com/image-search/

ktsmith• 14 years ago

Go to bings image search, put in a name, on the left side select people then select 'head and shoulders'. You'll get the same results without the names quite so prominently placed.

If you inspect this page you'll notice all the images come from bing, this is wrapping their search results via the api.

playhard• 14 years ago

I don't get it! Google image search does this!

jimminy• 14 years ago

Should be marked NSFW, James returned several images with tits.

pinchyfingers2• 14 years ago

In the results for 'James', I find 'James King' to be less offensive than 'James Carpinello'.

sp332• 14 years ago

It's just a Bing image search, e.g. http://www.bing.com/images/search?pq=face%2520of%2520stanfor... There's a button on the side to toggle "face search".

jerfelix• 14 years ago

Version 2 should "average" the faces of the people with that name. See what the average "Helga" looks like, vs. the average "Brad".

LogicLrd2• 14 years ago

That is an awesome idea, thank you Sir.

botolo2• 14 years ago

Love this idea!

yuvadam• 14 years ago

Pretty naive implementation. This is no more than a wrapper around Bing image search. As far as I can tell, no further logic happens in the app.

Not quite sure how useful this is. However, if you can create a facial mash-up by first names... Now that can be interesting.

officemonkey• 14 years ago

Unless you have a relatively rare name with a very popular frontrunner, such as "Cary" or "Dizzy."

NeekGerd• 14 years ago

You should "turn off" a full-name when it already has a photo. Avoiding getting 20 photos of the same person if the name is not really used. It would give the "app" much more dimension. Little style with the typed search, the results given etc... would be cool too.

pinchyfingers2• 14 years ago

The app is predisposed towards images of attractive people.

botolo2• 14 years ago

Nice implementation of an image search engine. I would love to be able to share faces and maybe star them.

badclient• 14 years ago

How is this different than me typing my name on facebook and seeing what folks look like?

I'm sure I'm missing something..

lilb• 14 years ago

AKA celebs that you share a name with.

curiousepic• 14 years ago

I was hoping this would be a system that determines what kind of faces go with different kinds of names, like "Hm, he doesn't really look like a Steve."

FrancescoRizzi• 14 years ago

I think it will take a few years before I can use my first name and not be associated with Mr. Schettino's image..

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