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QuickLinks For 2011-06-16

• Google muscles in on Canadian startup:
  As the creator of TinEye [Idee´s Leila Boujnane] had a feeling Google would one day add similar functionalities to its flagship search engine.
  On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off a series of upgrades which included Search By Image, an extension of the company’s Google Goggles image recognition technology.
  Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow who led the search upgrade announcement, said in an interview that some of the technology contained in Search By Image came from the company’s Google Goggle project and that Google wasn’t aware of TinEye’s service [yeah, dream on].
  "If there are small, intelligent technology startups that can reduce the time to development, we clearly talk to them and we look at their innovation out there, and we acquire numerous companies. In cases where we feel we can just do a much better job of building something that we want to build, and we just put together a team and build it."
  Matt Hartley/Canadian Financial Post.

• Finally some greetings on the new editorial collection EdStock.

• News from PhotoShelter, btw >"70,000 photographers" is a very successful number.

• Thought Equity Motion gets into cloud computing.

Google Buzz - "A new way to share photos, videos, and more"

Pure marketing speech (*) or really something new? At least for Gmail users a new way to ease your pain of staying always online and connected... .

   

Pino Granata: For Photography Big Is Bad

After the acquisition of Jupiterimages Getty Images will become bigger and will gain more share of the market.

As Clark Gable said, I don´t give a damn.

Now we´ll have over ten millions of LIFE pictures on Google which is quite a lot of competition for agencies which specialize in historical pictures.

The good thing about this operation is that, as it seems, Life is not going to charge for private usage and that we´ll have the chance to see the treasure that is the LIFE collection. I´m very, very excited about that.

This is something that our friend Bill should have done with the Bettman collection years ago.