Etsy buys machine learning and A.I. startup Blackbird to beef up search

Another day, another machine learning acquisition. Today Etsy announced it’s buying Blackbird Technologies, a startup that developed search and recommendation tech for ecommerce companies using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Reached by VentureBeat, an Etsy spokesperson declined to share how much the company paid for Blackbird. This Blackbird Technologies is not related to a surveillance company of the same name, which U.S. defense […]