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Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos

by David Evans on May 5, 2009   in Technology

The Facebook Engineering blog outlines the custom-built infrastructure used to manage 60 billion images on the social network. Fascinating stuff, talk about fixing the airplane engine during flight.
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos

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Google’s Similar Images Good for Online Dating?

by David Evans on April 20, 2009   in Uncategorized

The Google Labs blog talks about Similar Images.

Image Search is a tool you can use to find just about any kind of image, but it can sometimes be difficult to find the right image if you can’t describe it in words. The new Similar Images feature was developed with just this in mind. Using it [...]

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