DISQUS

Pixlover · 3 years ago

True but how much slower Like.com is :) Speed is the key with this kind of a service. Just raw performance of the software (short delay between the action and getting the results). I real like the ChezImelda service, the way the network recentres when you click on an image, quickly you experience 100's of products... and soon you find the one you like, no matter if a celebrities has it or not...

Jim Greer · 3 years ago

I agree that it's slow, but I'm really impressed by what a good job it does of finding things that look similar. The celebrity thing is a dumb gimmick, but I found some pull-on boots to replace the ones I've worn out.

Bonnie · 3 years ago

The service works very slow and returns mostly irrelevant results. Its design looks cheap. What kind of a woman is going to fall for it?

Pixlover · 3 years ago

I believe the truth of the story is that when you are asking state of the art PhD's the visual and image search problem is a real hard one. Riya tried it with faces and failed when they it came to scale the service, the same applies for taking random pictures of celebrities, picking a view pixel indicating a silver shiny earing -- and then hope a search engine will spit out someting similar, keep dreaming ... 10 years of PhD's research required to do it ... I guess the ChezImelda.com stuff works a kind of because the images are very similar, white background and most important within the same category, shoes... A LONG WAY TO GO...

"JD" · 3 years ago

Some elements of LIKE are quite fun, but i'm not sure this is really a serious shopping site. The www.chezimelda.com site is a bit less finished aesthetially, but you can see instantly that their core technology is faster and more powerful - i wanted to find a pair of Crocs and managed it within 2 clicks !!! (Click on a bright orange shoe, then an orange croc... and BANG! i get 16 pairs !)

amac · 3 years ago

Nifty service, but the performance is too slow, inconsistent, techy to really attract their core audience that will actually drive revenues (according to the folks @ Riya, female tech savvy shoppers). While the celebrity spin may be a gimmick, celebrity styling is a huge market and one that they are trying to capture. However, the technology can tell you that Brad Pitt's watch looks like a Casio (and delivers 5818 Like watches - most available @ Amazon, not exactly the watch mecca), but it can not tell you that its a limited edition Hublot that retails for 10k+. Most users want to know what he is actually wearing with some less expensive alternatives that look "like" his watch.

And what good is the service if you know generally what you want - for example, if you want Crocs, you would likely go to their website or do a search for Crocs, rather than finding an image of Mario Batali, zooming in on his footware and then waiting for the results.

Rooffire · 3 years ago

I'm not convinced this is really doing visual search. This could all be done by tags or hard-coded links since they control all of the content. Until I can search the web, see an image, select part of it, and then do the search, I'm not convinced it's doing anything.

Jayna · 3 years ago

From my perspective, as a woman, this site's look & feel is not a women's site. Sure it's supposed to be, but who on earth chose blue and yellow? Or that logo? Didn't they have at least some sort of test audience of women shoppers? This is a very unappealing site to me. A bunch of guys sitting around a boardroom table picking logos and designs isn't the way to attract women. Personally, I find it kind of corporate and boring. But who cares what I think... I only spend tons of money online and shop in the best boutiques.. oh yea, I'm the one they should be targeting.

Paul Pruitt · 3 years ago

Also check http://www.imgseek.net/ for an opensource desktop application with content based image search and its server side version: http://server.imgseek.net/ (may be interesting for those thinking of integrating visual search into their application or website)

Prasad · 3 years ago

An industrial strength working image search engine has been developed a long time back by this path breaking company. Check out this website

http://www.evisionglobal.com


cheers
Prasad

solihin · 3 years ago

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Alessandra · 2 years ago

For those interested in celebrity fashions and emerging designers, www.IguanaFashions.com is a great site that combines blogging and profiles of up-and-coming designers, with tags to find your favorite pair of shoes, handbags, accessories, and just about anything you can think of! I found this to be a truly unique experience, and I love the fact that it focuses on truly indie designers, and not the same-old designer labels. What a refreshing way to display new talent!!

Matt · 2 years ago

That is an incredible peice of technology. This sorta thing could really change the way we shop!

Just dont show my wife...

Matt

Mr Swamy · 1 year ago

This is just lame. It works only when i type in "round face watch", but if i actually select a round faced watch, it doesnt return a relevant product. This is one of the lamest services I have come across. Im doing my PhD as well and I can tell u this aint any image recognition, this is the kind of stuff done when results are not impressive and u still have to get a "result". And if Munjal has spent $25 Million on this, *cough*