Comments on: Google Buys Photo Recognition Company

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[...] was first introduced, VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra said Google after its acquisition of startup Neven Vision was working on the capability to recognize faces, but that it had decided not to include them in [...]

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[...] product that uses crowd-sourcing via Mechanical Turk.) Though the product comes via Google’s 2006 acquisition of facial recognition company Neven Vision, the company said it would not be analyzing faces until [...]

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By: Riya to Change Name, Looking to Sell Its Tech - GigaOM

Riya to Change Name, Looking to Sell Its Tech - GigaOM — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:57:02 +0000

[...] It seemed like a radical idea for a company that debuted back in May 2006 to much fanfare and, at one point, was close to being acquired by Google. That deal fell through, however, and Google settled for Neven Vision. [...]

By: VC Ratings

VC Ratings — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:02:48 +0000

Riya CEO to speak at The Deal's Silicon Valley Summit…

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By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:17:04 +0000

Hey Munjal,

Definitely not counting you out…keep us updated!

Liz

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:37:43 +0000

whether or not Riya is still searching for a buyer or a business model, i'd have to say the new Riya 2.0 interface is stunning.

in particular, the "People browse" is a veritable eye-stalking feast for the senses ;)

i wouldn't count them out of the race just yet.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:54:57 +0000

Is there any tagging standard for pictures ? Something similar to ID3 MP3 tagging ?

By: Munjal Shah

Munjal Shah — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:39:02 +0000

Not Bitter, Liz ;-). Just saying that

1) Google has with this acquisition affirmed the main premise underneath Riya…"that to truly make photos searchable you need technology to look inside it".

2) Google isn't always the first to release new technology. In this case Riya was the first to deliver it.

That being said, for the last two years we had no easily identifiable competitiors. Now we do. We can't ignore it and as I wrote… time to run … even faster.

Munjal CEO Riya

BTW - Congrats on the new job - GigaOm is becoming quite a powerhouse

By: imagelover

imagelover — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:44:29 +0000

While the whole world is oogling Riya, and Google’s acquisitions in the photo/image search space, there exists an amazing Canadian software company that is doing true visual search, http://www.ideeinc.com, they have real customers (Getty Images), real partners (Adobe), generating real revenues.

By: dreadsword

dreadsword — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:39:39 +0000

Heh - perhaps google can recognize and replace physical advertising inventory in photos - i.e.: covering over billboards with AdWords in your jpgs. That would be a site to see! (/tongue-in-cheek)

On the topic of Riya: IIRC, the last TechCrunch post on their expanded market focus included applications such as using a picture of a fabric pattern that you like to search the web for rugs that you would like. Errr - does this smack of a tool desperately flailing for use to anyone else?

Start with a need and work from there, entrepreneurs!

By: Venkatesh

Venkatesh — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:03:19 +0000

As per last data from hitwise, Image search is 9% of total google traffic. they are leaving too much on the table and guess this will help them to develop a way to monetize imagesearch. "Adsense for images" doesn't exist, but if they were to re-congnise objects/locations/text on images, it provides them a great way to put contextual advertising on them.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:34:43 +0000

I met the Riya guys a couple of months ago, and I got the sense that they were over-hyping. I think the fact that Google passed on them and their lousy trafic chart on Alexa confirms this. I like that hype without any meat doesnt work. Never worked. Bye bye Riya.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:15:57 +0000

Google Slowly taking over the world