Check it Out: Seeing is Believing ... With Visual Search

“Everybody knows to look for ‘starry nights,’ but obviously there’s more to art than starry nights, especially with a vast inventory of a million images,” says Roberto Mameli, vice president of engineering at Art.com. “To be able to allow customers to find more ways to discover rather than search is a powerful tool. In some ways visual search is a little bit limiting as a term. Searching implies that you know what you’re looking for. Discovery is a much more compelling word that this technology enables.”