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Like.com: Neat site or serious search tool?

My company recently added a client for whom Like.com is a direct competitor.

The Web site was much-hyped and reviewed 10 months ago, when it fired up, including being dubbed the "First True Visual Image Search," but little has been made of it since.

If you believe the traffic trend data from Alexa, traffic to Like.com has mirrored interest by the media and blogosphere, having a spike at launch, followed by a marked decline.

Like.com employs the technology of Riya, an image search company that focused primarily--until Like.com became a factor--on facial recognition. Now … Read more

Riya launches Like.com, visual search for shoppers

Earlier this year, Riya launched an extremely cool face-recognition system for your family photos. Today at the Web 2.0 Conference (but not during the Launchpad sessions), Riya said it is launching its next product, Like.com, a visual catalog and search tool for consumer goods.

The site lets you search for items by keyword. Once you find a picture of one you like, you can find more that look like it. You can also adjust sliders to tell the system that color is more important to you than shape (or vice versa), and you can zoom in on a … Read more

Riya brings order to mountains of digital photos

PHOENIX--One of the hottest companies you may not have heard of yet is Redwood City, Calif.-based Riya.

Essentially, Riya's Web-based service involves photo search. But that oversimplifies what could be one of the coolest--or scariest--innovations to come along in some time.

The idea is based around trying to bring order to the thousands of unnamed digital photos we all have on our hard drives.

Riya asks users to upload sets of photos and then add names to faces the service doesn't recognize. Once you add a name once, the software is designed to recognize each and every … Read more