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| Aug 14, 2009 | 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 that started happening years ago — although the San Mateo, Calif. company is still called Ri... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Like.com team shuts down visual search site Riya | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Riya, the visual search engine whose team later b... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | 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 TechCrunch DeadPool.
This was one of the original services that defined the early Web 2.0... |
| Jun 3, 2009 | 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 retailers like Nordstroms and Saks.com, but there are also plethora of web-based sites that ... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | 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 will be automated face recognition and tagging. In tandem with this update, Google will al... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | Skyhook and Locr Collaborate on Easier Geotagging for Digital Photos | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Say you’re looking at somebody’s vacation pictures. Chances are you have three questions right off the bat about each photograph: When was it taken? Where was it taken? And wh... |
| May 7, 2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| Mar 21, 2007 | Is Web 2.0 over and out? | Updated
New Internet technologies, defined vaguely as “Web 2.0,” have gone mainstream, but the cycle of innovation may be slowing, suggests a venture capitalist.
Separately, data shows that venture investments in Web 2.0 companies last year... |
| Jan 28, 2007 | The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines | Written by Charles S. Knight,
SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the
analysis.
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet
and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.”... |
| Jan 16, 2007 | Stickis lets you post notes on Web sites, and more | Stickis offers a service that lets you post notices — or stickis — on Web pages, viewable by people who have chosen to read your notices.
We first mentioned the San Francisco company in July, when it first got $600,000 in funding. It is abo... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | Image search race: Polar Rose, Pixsy, Snap, Ookles, Riya — list is getting long | Google and Yahoo have image and video search, but they’ve kept things to themselves, oddly not syndicating these for other sites to use like they have with their text search engines.
No doubt, they will do so soon. Meantime, a host of speci... |
| Dec 12, 2006 | Search 2.0 – What’s Next? | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard
MacManus
You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo,
Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half
of the 199... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search | Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the company is leveraging the core technology to l... |
| Sep 29, 2006 | Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up! | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus.
This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that
this area is getting mature and ready for prime time. Pluggd and Retrevo
launched technologies that ... |
| Aug 16, 2006 | Even with Neven Vision, Google is “one step behind Riya” | Updated
Google has acquired Neven Vision to help the search engine develop technology that recognizes objects within images, the company said yesterday.
Google said it will make its Picasa photo-organizing feature even better when you are s... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Google acquires biometric company Neven Vision | Google announced today that they have brought biometric and photo recognition company Neven Vision into the Google fold. Neven Vision has patents on technology ranging from photo analysis to face recognition in video files to several patent... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | Google Buys Photo Recognition Firm | Google on Tuesday announced it had acquired Neven Vision, a company that develops photo recognition software which is currently used in mobile phones, along with biometric applications by the U.S. government and law enforcement.
Neven Visio... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | 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 was signaled today by chief executive Munjal Shah, who told us in a phone call that he has ra... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | Riya 2.0 On the Way; Major Strategy Shift | Photo search and facial recognition site Riya (a TechCrunch sponsor) had a million photos uploaded in the first two days after launch and seven million photos uploaded in the first seven weeks. For details on the core service, see this post... |
| Jun 2, 2006 | TechCrunch Sponsors: Thank You | TechCrunch Sponsors
TechCrunch wouldn’t exist without advertising support, and so I want to take a moment to thank each of our four sponsors:
Text Link Ads is a great revenue generator for blogs and other websites. Like Google Adsense, Text... |
| May 30, 2006 | Anatomy of a Launch: The Riya Play-by-Play | Photo search and facial recognition site Riya is now about two months old (see here for our past Riya posts). Founder and CEO Munjal Shah is in the process of memorializing the highs and lows of the launch process, and this is must-read stu... |
| Apr 13, 2006 | TalkCrunch: Riya Update | Photo search and facial recognition startup Riya launched on March 21 and had a million photos uploaded in the first two days. We interview Riya CEO Munjal Shah and Marketing Director Tara Hunt on TalkCrunch to understand what Riya’s plans ... |
| Mar 23, 2006 | Riya – 1 Million Photos in 2 Days | Tara Hunt, Riya’s chief blogger, says on her personal blog that they’ve had a million photos uploaded just two days after launching. Wow, that’s a lot of pictures. Congratulations (again) Riya.
More on what Riya is all about here. |
| Mar 21, 2006 | Riya to Launch Today | UPDATE: Riya is not launching a public beta today, but is sending out emails with credentials to people who’ve signed up for the alpha. In a few days Riya will be opening up registration for everyone. More on their blog here.
Rumors are buz... |
| Jan 9, 2006 | Riya Nails Second Round Financing | Facial Recognition company Riya has marked the new year with a whopping $15 million second round venture raise from existing investor Bay Partners.
This is exceptional news for Riya and a great recovery after the acquisition rumor fiasco la... |
| Jan 9, 2006 | Riya, the facial recognition start-up, raises $15 million | Riya, the Redwood City start-up that is developing technology to recognize the people in your photos in order to let you tag and sort them more easily, has raised $15 million from Bay Partners, according to the company’s CEO, Munjal Shah. T... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | Riya sold to Google for $40M? | Lots of buzz out there that Google has aquired Riya, the start-up that uses facial recognition technology to allow you to tag your pictures more efficiently.
The rumor is $40 million, but this is still in the rumor category, because Riya ch... |
| Nov 19, 2005 | Riya's Launch Party @ TechCrunch | We reached a new milestone in our ongoing experiment to see how many people can fit inside my house before the police come and arrest me: over 250 last night (previous record was 200ish) at the Riya Launch Party.
The thing I liked best abou... |
| Nov 17, 2005 | The Riya-Google Rumor | Rumors are flying this morning that Riya (a killer photo facial recognition startup) has been or is being acquired by Google in the $40 million range. See Om Malik, Niall Kennedy and Paul Kedrosky.
Even though everyone is blogging about it,... |
| Nov 11, 2005 | Riya recognizes your photo | Updated
Riya is a Redwood City start-up, apparently backed by LeapFrog and BlueRun Ventures, that uses facial recognition technology to help you tag photos more efficiently.
From a story in Wired:
As Riya learns who’s in your pictures, it b... |
| Nov 10, 2005 | TechCrunch Meetup #4 – Riya Launch Party | Riya is holding its launch party here at the TechCrunch house next Friday, November 18, 2005. If you are in the area, make sure to drop by. Our last party/meetup was a blowout and I expect this one to be even bigger. Lots to eat and drink, ... |
| Oct 26, 2005 | First Screen Shots of Riya | Riya (formerly Ojos) will be opening its doors to 10 or so lucky alpha testers tomorrow morning.
Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitl... |
| Oct 20, 2005 | Ojos is now Riya | Ojos, which never owned ojos.com (they used ojos-inc.com) has found a permanent name – Riya. More on this on the Munjal Shah’s blog and Tara Hunt’s blog.
Riya has a facial and text recognition technology that automatically tags photos with ... |