{"id":39653,"date":"2011-12-09T21:12:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39653"},"modified":"2011-12-12T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T07:56:53","slug":"google-facial-recognition-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/39653-google-facial-recognition-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Google+ facial recognition feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> is rolling out a feature that lets members of its online social network automatically find themselves in photos posted by friends.<\/p>\n

The “Find My Face” feature being added to Google+ over the next several days is opt-in only, meaning people have to make a point to turn it on.<\/p>\n

By leaving it to Google+ members to activate the feature, the Internet giant was sidestepping privacy concerns raised when social networking rival Facebook<\/a> added facial recognition in an opt-out style this year.<\/p>\n

“By turning on Find My Face, Google+ can prompt people you know to tag your face when it appears in photos,” Google+ photos team engineer Matt Steiner<\/a> said in a blog post.<\/p>\n

“Of course, you have control over which tags you accept or reject,” he explained. “We hope this makes tagging your photos much easier.”<\/p>\n

Google remains undaunted in its bid to create a flourishing online community that can go toe-to-toe with social networking powerhouse Facebook.<\/p>\n

The California firm’s popular products and services will increasingly be woven into its nascent but fast-growing Google+ social network to make joining irresistible, executives said at an Internet conference here in October.<\/p>\n

“We are in an enviable position that we have people who come to Google,” Vic Gundotra<\/a>, vice president in charge of Google+, said at a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

“We are in this for the long haul… By Christmas you will see Google+ strategy coming together.”<\/p>\n

Google+ has attracted more than 40 million users since it opened to the public in September, but has a long way to catch up with Facebook’s membership of approximately 800 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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