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 Riya, it has been focusing on Like.com for a while now. It doesn’t look like too many users will miss the site either, according to data from Compete. In an email sent to users (and published on… Continue Reading
Visual search engine Superfish nets $5.3M
Superfish, a stealthy startup that will eventually let users search by sight, reeled in $5.3 million in second-round financing. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has been in research mode for a couple of years and plans to launch the service in the next several months.
Very little is known about the actual product, though the firm is able to maintain another office in Israel. Paid Content has compared it to Russian visual search engine Quintura, which… Continue Reading
Visual search site Like.com closes $32M round
Visual search shopping site Like.com just announced that it has raised a $32 million third round of funding. We reported on the deal back in July, but the money hadn’t been wired over yet and we could only say the amount was in the “double digit millions.”
VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall has been pretty impressed by Like.com’s business and technology, arguing the site demonstrates that image search can work. Looks like Menlo Ventures agrees — it… Continue Reading
Visual search engine Like.com blasts ahead — raises double digit millions
Like.com, a search engine that analyzes images for useful shopping information, has raised double digit millions in venture capital from Silicon Valley venture firm Menlo Ventures.
It’s also on a roll, in terms of both traffic and revenue.
Like.com lets you do things like search for the color, style or texture of shoes you want to buy, and then gives you a way to buy them. If your search term is, say “red snappy shoes,” it will… Continue Reading
Is Like.com really “killing” social search? Not yet
Yesterday, I wrote a piece about Like.com, a visual search engine company based in Silicon Valley that was reporting great progress: The young site has had rocketing visitor traffic over the past four months, and it’s headed toward profitability. People are using it to find the color or style of shoes they like, and then clicking through to merchants to buy them, and Like gets a cut, according to chief executive Munjal Shah, who showed… Continue Reading
Like.com shows visual search works after all
I’ve updated this story, given that I was attacked for not digging enough. See update here.
Just six months ago, things weren’t looking great for Like, a Silicon Valley company that offers visual search for shopping.
Its traffic wasn’t going anywhere.
But suddenly, over four months, the company has tapped a robust number of users, and it now expects to earn more than $10 million in revenue this year. It’s all driven by a steady refining of the… Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook search; Business 2.0 folds; Silverlight launches; and more
Here’s the latest action:
Facebook to launch people search in one month — Facebook will let search engines find and display very basic information from your Facebook profile, including only your name and the option to message you or friend you, it announced early this morning.
This way, if somebody searches for you on Google, this “public” page will show up — making it even easier for prospective employers to know where to find you on Facebook, and… Continue Reading