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When does Google buy Pinterest? 🤔 Pinterest is sitting on a wealth of data, driven by it's community of , and invested a ton of engineering into classification of photos to power visual search. Compared to Google Image search results, Pinterest is far superior. In a future where more of our interaction with technology is through images, video, and soon augmented reality, Pinterest becomes a huge threat to Google.
Pinterest seems like the perfect evolution of Google image search - which hasn't seen much product development in years. An acquisition makes a lot of sense. Does Alphabet have a 'P' company yet? :)
Yes there is, Google Patents (patents.google.com)
or, When does Snap buy Pinterest?
Snap's features are being successfully replicated by Instagram. I predict that Pinterest will be the bigger player
Interested to hear your thoughts on this?
Hunter
This is really something interesting: just point & shoot at something and Pinterest will try to get the best related items, searching through its giant image database. A simple example would be with clothes, you find something you like and want to re-create the same style, Lens is here for you! There is an article on The Verge :
when will pinterest launch this?
Hunter
I think it's starting to roll out
Hi Pierre-Marie, love Pinterest Lens. Here's something in the same vein that we've built , a fashion discovery app that let's you search, most importantly 'Snap & Search'. I think, the big difference is, that we bring back live shoppable links. Would be great to know what you think about Hook.
we launched yesterday in Beta on iOS and Android, we'll start rolling out to everyone in the next coming weeks.
**Warning: I'm about to geek out.** Did Pinterest just become an automated Jelly app meets Google search? I absolutely love it. Language barriers will be cut down drastically as AI can figure out what we were thinking of, and provide us with the right information we want. I'm actually talking about this at the in March. While this is a step in the right direction, I think it can get even more granular with companies like and advances like #neuraldust. Maybe we should look at conversations around: Is it OK that language be replaced by thought? What are the communication impacts of AI? Can we become Superhuman if we incorporate #AI into our bodies? Clearly this is just an image to search app, but have no doubt that this just put Pinterest on the #AI map in the same way that did for #AR. I'm thoroughly impressed.
AI conferences are 👌 no humans allowed though 😛
How about hybrids? ;)
this is really an interesting idea. I have been looking into how this would impact the AI landscape. One of he biggest barriers to this is that human cognition and process changes wildly among different cultures. And I guess that's the beauty of it. What we need is not thought to thought communication but better tools for our brains to directly plug into for data and communicate humanely 🙌
I matched images from my Etsy store to see similar images, man was I surprised, it's super neat and very accurate. Just thinking out loud, Pinterest could totally be the next place where I want to shop. There are these situations where you don't remember the brand, but you remember designs, colors or other visual references. Using that on search or using a relevant image to find what you want is super powerful, I personally tried a few matches and they led me to what I expected immediately. If only there was a buy button linked with my paypal/coinbase :D
You could even snap an expensive item and "steal-the-style" aka find the cheap equivalent at ikea.
haha yes that as well.
oh damn yea thats neat
Pinterest is probably one of the most underrated tech companies. People need to give them waaaaaay more credit. They do some amazing work.
100% agree.
This is huge, it has so much potential and could be a way to onboard many people that are not Pinterest users yet. At least I can definitely see myself using it more often now
Will they have an API for this? That would be sweet!
This is a great idea and mainstream use of a pretty common technology. Good to see Pinterest picking this up, as it helps its user base solve the problem, "I want that, where do I get it?"
Wow. Even aside from Lens, kudos to Pinterest on the Instant Ideas feature and overall design of the feed. The pin interaction features are really well done. Hadn't updated in a while.
This could be a great new channel to work on for content creators, I'll be curious to test it concretely 🤔
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