Previously powered by PicSearch, Microsoft is now using its own internally developed image search algorithms and index that have been over a year in the making. Mousing over a thumbnail causes the image to expand, and also spawns information about...
And MSN image search results (powered by Picsearch) had just as much of a variety as Ask Jeeves. Jeeves has had a picture search feature since mid-2003, but it has been powered by Picsearch, a third-party provider of image search capabilities.
For the last 10 months, AJ was utilizing their own image retrieval technology on top of content provided by PicSearch. Last March, we blogged about AJ beginning to use their own image retrieval technology/algorithm and included a link to an AJ blog...
Picsearch, the Stockholm-based provider of image search results to several engines including Ask Jeeves and MSN Search have just announced a deal with Lycos to include Picsearch image results on Lycos properties in the U.S.
Picsearch, the Stockholm-based provider of image search results to several engines including Ask Jeeves MSN Search have just announced a deal with Lycos to include Picsearch image results on Lycos properties in the U.S.
Honorable Mention: Ask Jeeves Pictures & Picsearch Best Image Search Engine Jeeves, My Yahoo Search, Google Desktop Web History Feature, AOL Snapshots, Ask Jeeves Smart Search, Google OneBox Results, Yahoo Shortcuts
Picsearch Picsearch Best Image Search Engine (If you don't use an image search engine, just leave this blank) Results will be posted in the Search Engine Watch Awards area of the site. We expect to announce the winners by February 6 or earlier.
In addition, Ditto and Picsearch are image search services worth checking out. Yahoo doesn't do inline display but will prompt with a text link at the top of results to try an image search as this example shows: pictures of sunsets.
Image results, by the way, come from Picsearch. Billed as a search engine for broadband users, Deepy provides access to Gigablast-powered search results along with a "View TextShot" feature that lets you preview a page before viewing it.
Results from the image index are identical to what you'll find at Picsearch. You can refine your image search results directly from the serp and view either color/black & white. You can also refine by image size.
Osmer says that MSN Search starts with the Picsearch database and adds its own tweaks, but at this point results from MSN Search and Picsearch are almost identical for the test queries I ran. MSN Search has partnered with Picsearch to provide...
Reminds me of something that AskJeeves has done (and I like) for over a year by placing a few images (if the searcher includes a trigger word) from their image database (powered by Picsearch) directly at the top of web search results pages.
Picsearch (images only) http://www.picsearch.com/ Presents image results from across the web. Draw a picture, get matching image search results. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using humans to play a game that they hope will lead to...
One of these is a nifty picture search function, using an imagebase of about 200 million images, provided by a company called Picsearch. Unlike image search at other major search engines, Ask Jeeves picture search results do not include adult images.
A link to a copyright notification page is prominent at the bottom of the home page, and a "You must obtain the appropriate permissions to use any image, linked to from picsearch, from the owner of that material" disclaimer appears at the bottom...
A link to a copyright notification page is prominent at the bottom of the home page, and a "You must obtain the appropriate permissions to use any image, linked to from picsearch, from the owner of that material" disclaimer appears at the bottom...
