Google eyes Riya

Posted on | December 12, 2005 |

EFY Times reports that Google is supposedly eyeing Munjal Shah’s company Riya, for an acquisition valued at around $40 million.

Riya is an online photo service which can recognise human face and tag it with names. The reason why Google could go desperate to get the deal, as arch rival Yahoo! has recently bought Flicker, a photosharing service, and is also better than Google’s Picasa.

Riya is so advance that it can distinguish between twins, despite extreme resemblance. And that’s not all, Riya can even recognise, from the myrid of images, if persons are from the same family. These features are going to make it a popular service among users from any group, as is the case with Google Earth.

Munjal Shah posts a correction on his blog regarding the workings of his company’s Bangalore team.

Our India team does not just fix bugs. In fact 70% of our core application software was written by our India team. Most of our engineering team is in Bangalore and our team is made up of some of the best engineers. Engineers like Sandeep, Nikhil, Krishna, Vineet, Nitin, and Piyush are the backbone of our engineering team.

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