{"id":508,"date":"2006-01-12T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/which-celebrity-face-do-you-have\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T12:49:12","slug":"which-celebrity-face-do-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/which-celebrity-face-do-you-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Which celebrity face do you have?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via James<\/a> comes celebrity face recognition from MyHeritage.com<\/a>. Although designed for genealogical purposes, there’s a huge amount of fun to be had putting non-celebs in the celebrity search and seeing whose faces come up. It’s not infallible (one photo of me seemed to be matched with Stan Lee<\/a> just because we were both wearing sunglasses), but when I tested it with a random photo of Tony Blair, it knew who it was.<\/p>\n

There is a certain amount of amusement to be had, too, if you forget to set the result to just one gender. Although I insist I don’t look like Alanis Morissette<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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