Google’s new search-by-image feature launched with enough kinks to start a ’60s rock band, not least of all that it isn’t so hot at identifying pictures. Sure, when uploading a cropped shot of the Chrysler Building, you get more tight shots of … the Chrysler Building. But when we uploaded a picture of Obama? Its “best guess” was George W. Bush. …
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Look, I know that image searching is really really hard, and even stuff like Faces on iTunes takes monstrous amounts of processor power just to work (and that only looks at relative faces in your photo catalog). I’m just saying, hey, if your imaging system can’t tell Bush from Obama, maybe it’s not ready for prime time.
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