“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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