techcrunch.com — Is a picture worth a thousand clicks? You’ve heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page. Now, get ready for contextual ads triggered by images on the page. Visual-shopping search engine Like.com is running ads on Facebook that appear to match objects in profile photos.
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demdudeJun 1, 2008
Exactly!It is possible to detect certain objects in videos by using very advanced algorithms that calculate how things move in relation to others. But it is still impossible to detect objects in real life photos with even nearly usable accuracy.
expendableyouthJun 2, 2008
buried for inaccuracy.
zippoJun 2, 2008
Facebook has ads?
harbinger67Jun 2, 2008
It's far from perfect.My profile pic is currently David Bowie as Jareth in "Labyrinth", but the contextual ad is trying to sell me Rush tickets :p
mintbloggerJun 3, 2008
Sounds interesting. It's going to create a new kind of behavior among the active users of Facebook and I can easily predict some high load on their servers in near future.
straathondJul 11, 2008
This is crazy freaky. I saw a guy who looks just like me in an add on facebook for ithink. but it wasn't one of my photo's. But there was someone else in the same pic. totally freaked me out.
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