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Old 06-10-2003, 01:25 PM  
Backov
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Some technical perspective here:

A good idea, but you don't have the technology.

Your tech guy said you are hashing (md5ing) the images. A simple resize kills your review and creates a duplicate entry.

You know what else does? Adding a url. Cropping. Color correction. Slight recompression.

You are going to have a database of millions and millions of pics, a large percentage of which will be dupes.

Invest in some real tech (not md5 hashing) and try it with that. By real tech I mean that there's some very high level image recognition tech that could probably do it - but it's an investment.

I don't see this being worth your time to be quite honest.

Sorry for the downer, just MO.
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