There’s no need to be working when you could be shopping. Your boss won’t mind if you spend an hour or two or three browsing an amazing new website called Like.com. Just say you’re looking for a white elephant present for the office holiday party.
Most of us slack about at work, so luckily for us, there are non-slacker types out there who actually use their brainpower to make life a lot easier for lazy people. My friend Danny is one smart guy, Harvard for undergrad, Stanford for his M.S. and Ph.D. After all that schooling he joined a start-up called Riya, a Silicon Valley visual search engine company that has just launched an addictive shopping site that finds items by appearance.
You can browse through jewelry, handbags, shoes and watches without having to sift through a dozen different sites to find exactly what you’re looking for. You hardly have to read anything, just look and click and repeat. You can even click on a celebrity to find an accessory similiar to the one your fave IT chick or chunk of hunk’s sporting so you, too, can look like a million without spending a million.
After choosing a category and type of accessory, refine your search by color, shape and pattern, or by brand, size and shopping sites including Amazon.com or Zappos.com. If a certain detail appeals to you, such as a silver buckle, you can draw a box around the buckle and items featuring a comparable looking buckle will pop up. Double click on one item and the site will find similar items for you to peruse until you find the perfect necklace, clutch, stiletto or pearly faced watch.
Save yourself a fistful of dollars by jumping on the bandwagon early. There’s FREE shipping for the first 10,000 customers! So everyone, go to Like.com RIGHT NOW and start shopping. Clothes will be added to the site soon so check back often for new additions and improvements to the shopping experience.
When Danny’s not climbing to the top of Mount Shasta or giving his running shoes a workout, he’s slaving away looking at pictures all day as part of his job as a senior researcher at Riya. Support his hard work and visit Like.com, the site that’s going to take the world by storm.
Oh, and you know that little website called Match.com? Well, Riya is in the works to use their face recognition technology to help singles everywhere find their mates based on aesthetic qualities, similar to the Like.com search. No one really reads the profiles anyways, right? Right.
This is exciting! Believe the hype. Who says looks don’t matter? Surely not the people behind Like.com.
- About Riya
- Riya Launches Like.com
- Riya’s Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search
3 comments:
wow, thanks aubrey for such a positive post! be careful, i'm gonna get a big head now. =) of course, being in alpha, we're still working hard to improve the product, so feedback would be much appreciated!
Okay, here's some feedback:
- Instead of/in addition to having to click "choose one," you should be able to click the photo of the item/category because that's what viewers will be drawn to - so you'd click the photo of the clutch for the browse clutches category, screen changes and shows an example of evening, fabric, etc., purses that's then clicked again to start the more in depth search.
- I hardly noticed the blue arrows on either side of the celebrity photos. They need to be made more noticeable.
- I would think that shoppers would want to know the brand and model of the celebrity items. It's not likely to send shoppers away to find the originals because the originals are most likely 10X what the average shopper can afford.
- Make the color, shape and pattern scroll tabs a different color besides white. Blends in too much with the background. The look of the entire site could use an overall warming up of color scheme, it looks a little too "cold" right now.
- As cool as having the info about each item pop up whenever you place the cursor on it is, the info boxes actually seem to get in the way a bit, and even slows down the search process because you have to wait until the box appears and then disappears before moving along (it is practically immediate, but still a hindrance). I'd almost prefer having to click each item for the box to appear, or having more page space given to each item so all the info can be placed right under it.
-Okay, and now, for example, look at the Tusk - Prague - Clutch Wallet - Black - Handbag. Once the info box pops up, the text ends with "and goes with ever..." Where's the rest of the text? And the Zappos link doesn't take you directly to the purse. You have to search there again. Although, with a different item, it did lead directly to the item for sale.
-When you click an item and it ends up in the left hand drawing box, it's so tempting to want to click the item to get more info or to buy it, but the shopper ends up simply focusing on a detail instead of getting more info.
- Is there going to be a way to compare two or more items side by side?
-There should be a button that lets you return to the homepage for a completely new search.
-Okay, that's ALL for now! Is anyone still reading this? Great site overall, just needs some tweaking.
Cool site...they should pay you for the plug...ahhah! One day you'll make millions writing.
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