Google is apparently taking that technology to heart by experimenting with facial recognition online. Even cooler (or creepier, as the case may be), one day Google's image search may be able to ...

Google is not building a separate facial recognition application, but you can expect to see it as a Google Goggles feature. How soon is anyone's guess, as privacy details need to be worked out.

Eric Schmidt said the accuracy of facial recognition technology is 'very concerning' and not something that Google would do, but he believes another company may cross that line.

Wound throughout Google’s extensive tech offerings, face recognition could become everything from a key (if your face is tied to your Google profile) to a powerful search booster.

The tech companies have big plans for facial recognition, but they're not sharing them with the government.

One hacker has successfully managed to get facial recognition technology to run on Glass, despite Google explicitly stating in its developer policy that this isn't allowed ...

Photo recognition is so good on Facebook and Google that they don't even need to see your face to ID you. Now what?

Yahoo Image Search offers the same size-matching, along with Creative Commons licensing filters, but Google's color-matching and face recognition seem to be unique tools.

Google has just acquired facial recognition software company PittPatt (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), according to an announcement on the startup's site. PittPatt, a project spawned from ...