Coverage of Like.com

So many generous folks have written about Like.com. Thank you all.

There is one clarification I want to make sure is very clear. When you click on a celebrity's item Like shows you similar items. Even the item on the left of the search result page is probably a similar item and not the real one. Just based upon appearance it is hard if not impossible to find the exact item. I do feel however that most people want to see similar items, but in case it was confusing I wanted to make sure we clarified this. We'll be adding something to the product messaging this as well.

Now on to the articles...

Techcrunch
Robert Scoble (Pod Tech)
Dan Farber - CNET
Rob Hof Business Week
Liz Gannes - GigaOm
Walt and Katie wrote here Subscription required
Kate Greene - MIT Technology Review
Matt Marshall - Venturebeat
Search Engine Journal
She Finds Blog

I'll add more as I see them....

Munjal

Comments

[desi aussie]

hi munjal

i came to this site via youthcurry.blogspot.com.

you have an absolutely killer product. here is wishing you good luck.

usability needs to be worked on.

i probably wont be visiting it a second time coz it has nothing of interest to me ( wrong gender)

regards
joey

ps does like.com work for porn ? as in if I have a fake nude pic of Aishwarya Rai can I find something similar :)

[Arjun]

Hey Munjal,

I've been watching Riya for quite a while and am thoroughly impressed with the new product. I think it's precisely the way people think about buying things. I actually bought a pair of shoes a few days ago, and when I was at the department store, I asked for shoes "like" my existing pair, but black instead of brown. like.com would have been the perfect tool for my search.

In any case, I just wanted to let you know that I "get it" and hope the rest of the world does too.

Arjun

[Aditya]

Awesome job!!! Munjal,

Its a great problem solver.
If only you could extend it so that individual jewellery/fashion sites can add it to their site just like google search. it would become viral like Youtube became.

Aditya

[Sreevatsan Raman]

Hey,
This is a cool feature/product...being in computer vision domain i am excited about seeing a product used to enhance user experience in a radical way.

Wishing you folks all success.

[Ben]

Munjal

Not only is it a great product, this was a great launch. I look forward to you expanding to other categories.

Bold move on the positioning switch. Congrats.

[/pd]

Munjal , add this to your list :)_

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-11-08.html#n19

[Yash K.S]

Hey Manjal,

I am watching your site and blog for quite sometime. Product looks great. What i liked most is Blog of yours, If a CEO of a company writes a Blog and shares the experiance without any masala, it will help more people to think or understand how CEO thinks and they can also aspire for.

When i read CEO books most of the time, i feel its polished and it did not cover the experiance in RAW format. More CEO should do blogging by sharing there experiences to create more leaders in IT Industry.

If a CEO writers books after many years of experiance he/she cannot remember each and every decisions which they have taken to become successfull. But, if they blog like you, obviously there will be more documentation about oneself.

I wish Good luck and more success in satisfying customer arround the world.

Regards,
Yash K.S

[Winston]

Hey Munjal,

This is fantastic and a work of a genius...well it goes to show that humans are always breaking barriers and I guess the only limit is Really your IMAGINATION...

A visual search engine? Wow...

Cheers,
Winston

[Rajnish]

Munjal,
It would be great if you can provide a browser plug-in that would allow people to search for images from any web-page that they are visiting. currently people are limited to searching content only from like.com.
If i'm logged on to macys.com, this plugin would allow me to search for watches right from that portal.

Best Regards,
Rajnish

[Madhu]

Dear Munjal,

Though the effort is commendable, the results thrown up by LIKE.com when we enter"GANDHI" and "DELHI" are interesting.

Does Gandhi get ONLY 1 result and is DELHI full of SHOPOHOLICS as we get only sandals, bags, and other shopping items.

Just Kidding :-), a nice effort, needs a lot of tinkering, but a step in the right direction.

Regards,
Madhu

[Liz Waldner]

As a Marketer...I say..what a creative and innovative way to have walking unpaid advertising by celebrities that draws customers to a merchants store front for a sale. I like it. I chatted you up in my blog.