Picture This: ; Polar Rose Uses Face Recognition to Build Photo Search Engine

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NEW YORK - A Swedish startup is combining software and human assistance to help make photos and other images more easily searchable online, raising privacy concerns as the technology eases the tracking of people across Web sites.

Traditionally, search engines analyze text surrounding an image on a Web site. So a search for "Bill Gates" might produce a photograph captioned with the name of the Microsoft Corp. chairman. But a search for a reporter's name might produce that same photograph if it had accompanied an article he had written.

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Picture This: ; Polar Rose Uses Face Recognition to Build Photo Search Engine

Polar Rose AB is bringing facial-recognition technology to the mix. Its software scans everyday images for about 90 different attributes. If the software finds a match with im...

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