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Someone needs to give these guys a big wad of cash so they can index more sites. I got some interesting results even on some moderately obscure images, but many

by swombat 18y ago

Someone needs to give these guys a big wad of cash so they can index more sites. I got some interesting results even on some moderately obscure images, but many others returned no results. Even with a small index, though, this is pretty damn cool.

DarkShikari 18y ago
I tested a forum avatar that was downscaled to the point of unrecognizability... and it found the specific original image immediately. It is pretty impressive.
- ErrantX 18y ago
  Heh, I did the same with my usual avatar with similar results. They've been about for a while - it is impressively useful & they need more funds for sure.
tortilla 18y ago
I agree, was thoroughly impressed with them when I tried some random images. Unfortunately, they might have to add a Twitter suffix to their name to attract funding.
mrtron 18y ago
Idée Inc has been around for quite a while doing cool image stuff - they are almost certainly funded. This is a really impressive pattern matching search.
- dmix 18y ago
  Leila and Paul bootstrapped the company from day 1 and have paying corporate customers.
jdrock 18y ago
At the risk of being spammy, I really do think they'd benefit from using the service my company has developed - http://www.80legs.com http://www.80legs.com. They'll be able to reach and compare millions of images per day for less than $100 (depending on the computational complexity of their image comparison).
- radu_floricica 18y ago
  I don't know about them, but this looks very promising. Will you also offer search/parse primitives, like simple ways to parse classifieds or forums or other standard formats?
  - jdrock 18y ago
    We plan on providing some basic utility functions that will help our customers, but one of the great things is that you can use third-party code in your own code. I actually mean two things when I say this. First, you can use available Java libraries for parsing HTML. Second, we'll be creating an app store model, where by developers can sell/license their code to other customers.
- Keyframe 18y ago
  well this looks quite interesting! edit: ok I'm watching the video where you, or someone, is explaining the service. I was wondering how limiting is the access to data? I'm under the impression that you crawl the web no matter what and clients piggyback on the crawl stream and do analytics on it. So, who makes calls on web crawling method, I guess you? What if a client wants to crawl and analyze only a specific domain, country specific, for example? And how often and what exactly gets crawled? Lets say a client wants to implement a news.google.com or google alerts (or even tineye) - just as an example - it would analyze a web crawl stream from you and get data out of your system to their servers for utilization? How would such a, presumably large, data get transferred over to the client? What is provided as crawled data? Only a html stream, or the whole page that includes js, css and pictures? Or would a client need to get image links from your crawl and get images themselves? Sorry for lots of questions and incoherency :) but it does look interesting.
  - jdrock 18y ago
    That is me :) 1. Who makes the crawling method? We give you the ability to write your own crawling logic. You don't have to though.. we have a default crawler that runs as well. 2. Crawling specific pages? You can specify pages to crawl using regular expressions or your own custom code. 3. How often and what gets crawled? Up to you :) 4. How does the data get transferred over? It's better if you don't transfer all the data over. You can push in your own compute functions to process the data you crawl, and just return much smaller result data sets. 5. What's provided as crawl data? You can specify the results you return in your code. It's up to you.

by swombat 18y ago

DarkShikari 18y ago

I tested a forum avatar that was downscaled to the point of unrecognizability... and it found the specific original image immediately. It is pretty impressive.

ErrantX 18y ago
Heh, I did the same with my usual avatar with similar results. They've been about for a while - it is impressively useful & they need more funds for sure.

tortilla 18y ago

I agree, was thoroughly impressed with them when I tried some random images. Unfortunately, they might have to add a Twitter suffix to their name to attract funding.

mrtron 18y ago

Idée Inc has been around for quite a while doing cool image stuff - they are almost certainly funded. This is a really impressive pattern matching search.

dmix 18y ago
Leila and Paul bootstrapped the company from day 1 and have paying corporate customers.

jdrock 18y ago

At the risk of being spammy, I really do think they'd benefit from using the service my company has developed - http://www.80legs.com http://www.80legs.com. They'll be able to reach and compare millions of images per day for less than $100 (depending on the computational complexity of their image comparison).

radu_floricica 18y ago
I don't know about them, but this looks very promising. Will you also offer search/parse primitives, like simple ways to parse classifieds or forums or other standard formats?
- jdrock 18y ago
  We plan on providing some basic utility functions that will help our customers, but one of the great things is that you can use third-party code in your own code. I actually mean two things when I say this. First, you can use available Java libraries for parsing HTML. Second, we'll be creating an app store model, where by developers can sell/license their code to other customers.
Keyframe 18y ago
well this looks quite interesting! edit: ok I'm watching the video where you, or someone, is explaining the service. I was wondering how limiting is the access to data? I'm under the impression that you crawl the web no matter what and clients piggyback on the crawl stream and do analytics on it. So, who makes calls on web crawling method, I guess you? What if a client wants to crawl and analyze only a specific domain, country specific, for example? And how often and what exactly gets crawled? Lets say a client wants to implement a news.google.com or google alerts (or even tineye) - just as an example - it would analyze a web crawl stream from you and get data out of your system to their servers for utilization? How would such a, presumably large, data get transferred over to the client? What is provided as crawled data? Only a html stream, or the whole page that includes js, css and pictures? Or would a client need to get image links from your crawl and get images themselves? Sorry for lots of questions and incoherency :) but it does look interesting.
- jdrock 18y ago
  That is me :) 1. Who makes the crawling method? We give you the ability to write your own crawling logic. You don't have to though.. we have a default crawler that runs as well. 2. Crawling specific pages? You can specify pages to crawl using regular expressions or your own custom code. 3. How often and what gets crawled? Up to you :) 4. How does the data get transferred over? It's better if you don't transfer all the data over. You can push in your own compute functions to process the data you crawl, and just return much smaller result data sets. 5. What's provided as crawl data? You can specify the results you return in your code. It's up to you.