“No price was disclosed, but TechCrunch reports that Google will pay over $100 million,” Claburn reports. “Like.com, which began life as Riya.com, a company then focused on facial recognition, leverages computer vision and machine learning technology to allow users to search for goods by visual similarity.”
Claburn reports, “While Google’s primary interest in the company is likely to involve using its technology to add value to its core search products, Google also stands to gain through the enhancement of related image recognition services like Google Goggles.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Next up: Evil.com.
Google Goggles?
Try to say that three times real fast.
Ok , now six times.
Still didn’t catch the joke?
Try nine times as fast as you can.
Ahh! got you didn’t it?
They’re not evil. They’re just trying to survive…
That’s a really wacky site you linked to MDN.
Google could probably buy any company it wanted to buy. Damn, I should of bought Google stock when it first came out. I remember thinking, “Google, really? Who would take a company by that name seriously?”
A lapse in judgment me thinks.
Google acquires “like.com” to make products “like” apple’s products? did they got it from microsoft?
Google is liking its strategy. Likes it a lot.
Poor Google.
evil.com is already taken. So, they settled for like.
I think that this company has been on the block for a while. I was really surprised that Apple did not buy it for so little money. It could prove to be a gigantic mistake on Apple’s part. If you think about it, the use of Google Goggles (only available on Android) to identify a product and then drive the consumer to a number of different places, selectively choosing Like.com’s sites first and obtaining a commission on each sale is just mind boggling.
I am beginning to think that Apple is mainly interested in Hardware and may be taking their eyes off the ball when it comes to the customer experience and software. I really think that Like.com should have been in Apple’s portfolio of companies months ago.
Again, just my 2 cents.
google goggles….. Lol
It’s good for Apple that Google is wasting it’s money on all kinds of shit.