Pixsy Makes Image Search ‘Really Simple’
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Written By Reprise Media | April 4, 2006 | Share This
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Not to be confused with the Pixie on the left, Pixsy flies into an ever-crowded video and image search field today, according to ZDNet. Using proprietary technology, Pixsy forages through a “hundreds” of really simple syndication (RSS) feeds to find the latest pictures (moving or otherwise) from popular partner publishers like PhotoBlog, StarPulse and the New York Times, then organizes them “based on the context surrounding those images.”
Beneath the visage of its mascot - a blue ovoid creature that looks like it just woke up from a three-day bender - users can input a search query of their own or select from about 50 “recently searched” terms. Folks can also look up pics and videos by source, category (these range from “People & Dating” to “Tech News”), or pick from a selection of featured items on the front page. Clicking on a picture or video launches a pop-up box telling you when it was indexed, from where, and why Pixsy thinks it matches your search term (a fragment of context is included). Clicking on a link opens the object’s source in a new browser window.
Eventually, the four-employee firm would like to license out its engine for revenue purposes. For now, Pixsy’s making money from advertising (the usual “Look for [search query] on eBay”-type ads line the left side of the search results page) and “affiliate partnerships,” says ZDNet - providing a lead for a poster seller, for instance, would garner Pixsy a fee. Whether they’ll make good is an open question - their content is theoretically fresher than the competition’s, but there’s a lot of competition. That said, it’s hard to go wrong fulfilling the world’s apparently limitless fascination with freakish images.
Topics: Search: Image, Search: Video |