New Features in Picasa 3.5: Face Tagging and Geo Tagging
The new Picasa 3.5 is very loveable, considering the very streamlines face tagging feature. Picasa easily recognizes which faces are the same person, and creates albums for each person in your pictures. This makes it effortless to screen all pictures in which a particular person appears. Handy when you have to find a good picture of yourself for a Bio or other purpose, and quickly want to get an overview of all of your own pictures.
Google brought out the video below to show us how face tagging works in Picasa, and it also makes a brief mention of Geo Tagging. This lets you assign a location to your pictures, and tag where they were taken. Comes in handy if you cannot remember what you’ve seen where after a few years, and can make sense of your vacation pictures. However, geo tag quickly, before you start forgetting all the locations where you’ve taken your shots.
Personally, I’ll be using face tagging far more than geo tagging, what about you?
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I wonder if geotagging helps with search engine performance in the area of local search? I would imagine Google’s algorithms have gotten sophisticated enough to give credit to a local blog entry or webpage that has geotagged photos in the content.
Any thoughts on this?
Hi Joe, Good question.
I would suspect they would try to use that data as long as they can find it.
Though it is another element that the creator can easily use for spamming purposes so I don’t know what type of weight they would give this kind of tag.
I’d use it properly and hope for the best, it can only help if you aren’t spammy about it.
I think this sort of thing would be difficult to spam. Someone has to upload a picture or video, geotag it, then use the geotagged image url in the content of their uniquely written blog entry or article. It’s only a hunch, but I suspect Google is using geotagging along with other local indicators like linking out to a Google map (for instance), in their algorithm.
I dunno, but I am experimenting with this nonetheless.