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0 Like.com team shuts down visual search site Riya

Riya, the visual search engine whose team later built shopping site Like.com, is shutting down later this month.

The closure only finalizes a shift...

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0 How One Startup Used Patents To Kill A (Better) Competitor

Teck points us to an all too typical, but still disappointing, story of a startup, Like.com (which previously was Riya), and how it allegedly killed...

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0 Google To Acquire Like.com After Leaving Them At The Altar In 2005

In late 2005 Google was on the verge of acquiring a company called Riya - the first real attempt at image facial recognition and tagging for...

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0 Riya Shuts Facial Recognition Efforts

San Mateo-based Riya, which offered an online facial recognition service for photos, has shut down its Riya.com web site, which allows users to tag...

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0 A Sad Day. Goodbye, Riya

Facial recognition service Riya will shut down on August 21, 2009, says founder Munjal Shah in an email to users this morning. We are adding it to the...

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0 Covet.com Will Be Your Stylist And Personal Shopper In One

Shopping for fashion on the web can be an overwhelming experience. Not only can you find an unlimited amount of clothing on the e-commerce sites of...

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1 Picasa Web Albums Get Face Recognition

According to a report on CNet, the next version of Google's Picasa Web Albums will go live at noon PST today. The central new feature of this version...

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0 Latest Startup Tech Jobs on nPost

Search Engine Architect at Riya
Lead Web Crawler Software Engineer at Riya
Enterprise Sales Representative at Box.net
Marketing/Sales Assistant at...

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  • Date: Jun 10, 2008
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2 New Visual Search Engine Picitup Needs to Pick Up Its Game

Visual search and image recognition is one of the holy grails of consumer Internet technologies. Picitup is jumping into the deep end of this space by...

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0 Viewzi Takes Visual Search To Another Level

Visualization tools are slowly making a way for themselves on the web. We have given you an extensive list of some of the best visualizations tools...

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3 Chinese Photo Site Tuyuan May Do Facial Recognition. Or It May Just Put Boxes Around People’s Heads

I can’t really say much about Tuyuan yet since it’s in Chinese and there isn’t much information (translated page here), but it certainly looks like...

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2 Picollator Image Recognition Search

There are a bunch of companies trying to figure out how to get a machine to be correctly identify images just by looking at them. We've profiled a...

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0 The Best Tools for Visualization

Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to...

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1 Riya: New eyes on search

Riya is a search engine company with a business model based on the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Founded in August 2004,...

1 Riya Eases Pain of Pile of Pix

The field of online photo-sharing sites is becoming pretty crowded, but a new service hopes to distinguish itself by automating the tedious job of...

1 Riya supersizes plan: will become a "visual" search engine

Riya, the Silicon Valley photo recognition start-up, is expanding its ambition: It wants to become a full-fledged "visual" search engine.

The move...

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