1. A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Group Ten:
Brad Wright, Brandon Day, Nick Ponder, Jason Tipton, Nathan Kinard

2. Key Words: Riya Algorithm Visual Signature Likeness Search
Click-Through

3. What Is like.com? What is like.com? How is it different?
Who developed it?
What is the reasoning behind like.com.

4. How Do You Use like.com Decide what you are searching.
Text or Pictures.
Set search criteria.
Refine the image focus.
Run Likeness Search.

5. Likeness Searches Visual signatures and algorithms are the key
Visual Signature is a mathematical representation of the image.
Based on 1000 variables
When enough variables are identical, the images are alike.
Even text are converted to visual signatures.

6. Where Do They Stand? Still young and not fully developed.
Other features are to be added.
Cross-matching feature.
Upload feature.
Enhance the celebrity search.

7. How Does This Affect The Market?
More people will attempt to utilize this technology.
Gives consumers a better outlet to find what they are looking for.
Software companies will make money based on click-through.
Merchants have another effective way to market their products.