Like : Visual Search

Filed in archive Web 2.0 on November 15, 2006

The photo search company focusing on facial recognition Riya has launched a quite revolutionary search engine called Like. Why revolutionary ? Let me explain.

I always wanted a program or script that can organize my images based on what you see in the images. If I had that, I could easily categorize images the way I see them. Only a couple of years ago, this would have taken a supercomputer or two to get it done. Like can do this. You can have it search for images that contain a specific item or detail. You first do a text search for something you're looking for, mark the item in the image you've selected and do a visual search. The site currently returns results only for shoes, jewelry, hand bags and clothing. Like.com will be launching an image uploader and a toolbar soon. I can only imagine the happiness of an adult site webmaster when this technology becomes publicly available......