We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or so will have some writing on it.
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.
Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
A lot of the future of search is going to be about pictures instead of keywords. Computer vision technology is going to be a big deal.
The whole reason Pinterest exists is to help people discover the things that they love and then go take action on them, and a lot of the things they take action on are tied to commercial intent.
