Archive — March 17, 2007
Originally published on The Luxe Mix, March 2007. Recovered from the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine).
I was blown away when I first saw this site. The technology introduced on this site will forever change the way we shop for fashion online. I’m really serious!! www.like.com I must forwarn the site is still in beta so it’s extremely quirky and often stalls my browser or crashes it completely. I’m sure as time goes on the performance will improve steadily. In any case it’s worth a look. They have built a system that allows shoppers to pick a product, like a shoe, shirt, or handbag and scour the web for similar looking products. Of course the search is contrained to sites like.com crawls so it’s not everything out there but maybe one day it will. (click on image to enlarge) Above is a visual search I conducted on black heels. what’s great is that you can use your cursor to zone in on a specific part of the shoe or product that you like, such as the metal buckle of one of the shoes, or the stilleto heel and the search engine will retrieve all black heels that match that visual element. I heard that the techonology they are using was originally built for facial recognition software. I’m glad they decided to put it to good use finally! Who cares about faces when you can be saving hours and hours of aimless searching for the perfect black patent leather stilleto?? Technorati Tags: fashion, fashion search, like.com, online shopping, visual search