Google snaps up photo-technologist Neven Vision | News.blog | CNET News.com

"According to Google's blog, the search giant has bought Neven Vision, a small Santa Monica-based company that specializes in object and facial recognition technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Adrian Graham, Google's product manager for photo-sharing application Picasa, elaborated slightly on how Neven's 'expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo' fits into the search provider's mission."