re-emerging visual search

phew .... it's getting hotter and hotter out there. have a look at

like.com

tiltomo.com

and the announcements made by

www.polarrose.com (it looks like it won't be safe anymore to upload your picture to flickr.com, since you can be found by anyone who has a picture of yourself through a visual search, powered by biometric technology. exactly the same thing that is happening at www.babondo.com.While we believe that this type of search has been available in the intelligence community for a while, making it available to the general public is another story !)

Babondo.com - find a face - find your match

Finally the people that run the worlds safest matchmaking site have translated it into english. The site owners seem to believe that people who are looking for a partner ( or a date) online will have an interest in finding that person through a VISUAL search. This you can do on babondo.com and apparently it works like this: You take a picture of someone that you find attractive, let's say that of your best friends girlfriend. That picture you can then use to find a babondo.com member that looks just like the person in your picture. All the members of the site will be scanned for similarities with the picture that you have provided and will be ranked according to their look-alike-ness. Also, the site provides all the standard functions of a "regular" social networking site such as user profiles, contact lists, chat, messaging, etc. I am curious to see whether this kind of partner search will attract interest... since I always wanted to find a Christina Aguilera look-alike for a date :-))