Ok I probably aint the first but definitely wont be the last to comment on this but Riya the photo search people that uses face andtext recognition, are supposedly being lined up as the next Google acquisition.
Firstly, this seems like a pretty sensible move on Google’s part and great business sense. Yahoo clearly got a major step up on the big G with Flickr and is in danger of completely loosing out in the photographic market. Secondly this software is hot, from the stuff of science fiction novels little more than a decade ago this can completely revolutionize the waywe store and retrieve photo’s. The fact is Flickr is damn good and theproof is in the massive community but if we could automatically tag photo’s when uploading them with peoples names and places then it would take the only headache out of the equation.
Don’t get me wrong, there is an awful lot of crap floating around again in this Web 2.0, dot com part 2 or whatever you wanna call it but this is a good example of what all the fuss is about. The figure quoted at the moment is along the lines of $40m which for a fresh, venture capitalist, start up is good business all round.
