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Corrigon

Corrigon (Hebrew: קוריגון) was a Tel Aviv-based visual search company founded in 2007 by Einav Itamar and Avinoam Omer. Corrigon's main business is in the field of copyright monitoring: Corrigon provides image monitoring that identifies how and where images are being used on the internet and in print. Corrigon's Image identifier used content-based image retrieval algorithms to identify images even when colorized, cropped, or otherwise modified. The user interface was web-based. The system identified all images on the web that looked similar to the input images and generated a periodic usage report for Corrigon's clients. EBay acquired Corrigon in October 2016 for $20 million. Corrigon’s team looks like it will all be joining the company, and it will continue to operate out of Israel, where eBay already has a structured data group in place in Netanya.

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Corrigon (Hebrew: קוריגון) was a Tel Aviv-based visual search company founded in 2007 by Einav Itamar and Avinoam Omer. Corrigon's main business is in the field of copyright monitoring: Corrigon provides image monitoring that identifies how and where images are being used on the internet and in print. Corrigon's Image identifier used content-based image retrieval algorithms to identify images even when colorized, cropped, or otherwise modified. The user interface was web-based. The system identified all images on the web that looked similar to the input images and generated a periodic usage report for Corrigon's clients. EBay acquired Corrigon in October 2016 for $20 million. Corrigon’s team looks like it will all be joining the company, and it will continue to operate out of Israel, where eBay already has a structured data group in place in Netanya.

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  1. date of foundation: 2007 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2007". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357104773

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