Information Law Possum (discontinued)

My wonderful colleague Silke just gave me a pointer that a biometrical search engine, www.riya.com, already exists. Thus, you can replace the potential mood used in my previous post by the present mood and start re-thinking your image publication strategy …

Here’s a statement from Riya’s developers:

“Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look inside the image, not only at the text around it.

Use Riya to:

• Find similar faces and objects on many images across the web.

• Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.

Riya also has a personal search service that does face and text recognition in your photos. You can use our face and text recognition technology to:

• Train the system to recognize the main characters in the story of your life.

• Share photos with friends and family.

We believe the time has come to truly make photos searchable, to let people say I want “more like this” and get what they want, and to eventually allow every public photo in the world to be found.”

Riya’s beta version doesn’t work particularly well yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Google & friends had already offered to buy the company.

P.S. Guess where Riya’s CEO and co-founder, Munjal Shah has obtained his Master’s degree in computer science?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 am and is filed under data protection, privacy.