Appreciate this update, I've been wondering what's going on.
FWIW in 2020 Yandex image search had a "match photo by face" feature which would effectively let you find names for people easily. They've since changed image search to not do that anymore. I wrote about it at the time: https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/facial-recogniti...
> As early as 2011, a Google engineer revealed he had been working on a tool to Google someone’s face and bring up other online photos of them. Months later, Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, said in an onstage interview that Google “built that technology, and we withheld it.”
“As far as I know, it’s the only technology that Google built and, after looking at it, we decided to stop,” Mr. Schmidt
FWIW in 2020 Yandex image search had a "match photo by face" feature which would effectively let you find names for people easily. They've since changed image search to not do that anymore. I wrote about it at the time: https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/facial-recogniti...