Remake of Riya comes out as cool way to search for jewelry, handbags, clothes and other items

November 8th, 2006 | Robert Scoble

Take one URL that costs $100,000, 250 servers, a room full of PhD’s, a hot visual search technology (this is the team that built the groundbreaking Riya face detection technology) and add some keen insights from users and you get Like.com. Like is a remarkable search experience – one where you use images to search for things. Here Riya’s CEO, Munjal Shah, explains what makes this search technology different than all others.

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