How to find your celebrity double via Google

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FEBRUARY 12, 2012 11:08PM

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I work in tech for my day job, so I came across this sometime in the past year. Some people use it to search for violations of image copyright.

Google has an image recognition search. You can input an image link, or actually upload a URL, and it will display something it calls "visually similar images." Click on the little camera icon in the search to get there from the link above. You should see:

Google image search snapshot

So according to Google, I am a cross between Anne Hathaway, Kate Moss, and Angelina Jolie on a bad day. And a bunch of other dirty tosseled blonds whom I don't immediately recognize. Including one doll.

My Google Image Report for my OS Avatar

It's Google, it's gotta be objective, right?

Or maybe...they just have a lot of photos up there on the web, those celebs...

Try it with your own avatar. It's fun.

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heehee. It could have been worse!!

:-) / r

toritto

February 12, 2012 11:18 PM

What a great Google feature, Helvetica Stone. Love the photos of you and the other 25-uplet sisters separated at birth! (Including one doll) :)

clay ball

February 12, 2012 11:24 PM

But why do you want to look like anyone else? =-} Theres only one you.

blufeather

February 12, 2012 11:26 PM

No offense, but the one in column one, row three is a porn star. I think she was in "Welcome to Best Little 'Doll' House in Texas". Btw, ty 4 the tip. R

Trudge164

February 12, 2012 11:33 PM

I clicked on the link and just got google images and then my sons picture came up next to me.
Makes sense..:)
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Linda Seccaspina

February 12, 2012 11:36 PM

sigh, almost half of mine were men...and one was jocelyn wildenstein, eek!
:p stoopid google

hyblaean- Julie

February 12, 2012 11:52 PM

I tried it and might make a post of it tomorrow - want to keep today's post on top overnight. But what came up was one blonde with bare breasts (my comparison photo was a bust only - no, no, the head-only type bust), another clothed but enormous boobs, two black children, a number of men some of whom are Chinese, three women with green hair...WTF.

Myriad

February 13, 2012 12:26 AM

I guess I have universal every-person features. or the sunglasses thru it off...

Myriad

February 13, 2012 12:28 AM

I tried with a couple of other headshots and got equally bizarre offerings. The last one included a new-born baby and several East Indian men.

Myriad

February 13, 2012 12:40 AM

if you like the photoshopping like I do, google image search, tineye, and the others are pretty useful for other stuff, too. I never thought about doing what you did, but everyone already tells me who my celebrity doppleganger is, so I just wasn't curious what the google russkies thought...until now, that is.

MalcolmXY

February 13, 2012 12:56 AM

All right, I quit. I tried a plain headshot, no hat (Google was matching black hat with black hair, I think), no sun-glasses. I got mostly men, one of them bald!

Myriad

February 13, 2012 01:03 AM

This is super cool. I could waste serious amounts of time with this search.

Maureen J Andrade

February 13, 2012 01:10 AM

You can add a word to it, too. When I added mother, my results got exceedingly more bizarre.

Helvetica Stone

February 13, 2012 02:08 AM

Yup. And now we just gave Google our visages, which will allow any number of privacy invasions based on facial recognition. I'm Shari Belafonte Harper. Done

zumalicious

February 13, 2012 02:22 AM

Yup. And now we just gave Google our visages, which will allow any number of privacy invasions based on facial recognition. I'm Shari Belafonte Harper. Done

zumalicious

February 13, 2012 02:22 AM

Patrick Frank

February 13, 2012 06:56 AM

HS, thanks for the info on this! There are some additional sites like this, also, that I have used to see if various photos I had posted over the years had been pirated, etc. My guess is that Google has the more powerful search function since they've got so much money to play around with.

designanator

February 13, 2012 08:15 AM

I've heard about this, but didn't think about applying it this way! Thanks for the tip - and I'm curious to see if I do it, if there will be inanimate objects included, like your doll?.... Intriguing....

Alysa Salzberg

February 13, 2012 08:23 AM

I the only likeness I get back, is that of Elmer Fudd, then you're in trouble Stone.
R

Out on a limb

February 13, 2012 08:24 AM

That should have be "If" Now I know, it's going to come up with Elmer Fudd!

Out on a limb

February 13, 2012 08:26 AM

My results are similar to Myriad's. From black bald men to fluffy dogs and a few other bizarre results. Then I tried my dog and one match was a pretty blond woman. Who know? Did try adding a few descriptive terms, no matter... Fail!

asia rein

February 13, 2012 08:28 AM

Boooooh!

My OS avatar doppelgangers are a bunch of other non-celebrities. Oddly enough, none of the matches include large vegetables.

another steve s

February 13, 2012 12:09 PM

Uh- mine keeps coming up blank-?

Herr Rudolphus der Rude

February 13, 2012 04:59 PM

He! He! Wonder what I look like ;=)

guss olsen

February 13, 2012 07:12 PM

Thanks for a little fun. I tried three different pictures of myself -- about half the "matches" came back with pictures of women. I'm not quite sure what to thank about that, since I'm such a manly man. One photo match came back with Elvis and Mikhail Gorbachev -- say, maybe I should get a new avatar as Elvis Gorbachev.