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Finds relationships on social media

"Imagine you and your mother are pictured together, building a sandcastle at the beach. You're both tagged in the photo quite close together. In the next photo, you and your father are eating watermelon. You're both tagged. Because of your close 'tagging' relationship with both your mother in the first picture and your father in the second, the algorithm can determine that a relationship exists between those two and quantify how strong it may be," he said in a statement.

in a third photo, you fly a kite with both parents, but only your mother is tagged. Given the strength of your 'tagging' relationship with your parents, when you search for photos of your father the algorithm can return the untagged photo because of the very high likelihood he's pictured."

New algorithm finds relationships on social media, even in 'untagged' photos A new algorithm has the power to improve the process of searching through billions of photos on the Internet by establishing your relationship with others based on the location of 'tags' in photos posted to social media sites.