Pixsys Visual Search Almost Impressive

Now here's a search engine destined for controversy. Pixsy.com, a "visual search engine" that scours the web for images and videos on RSS feeds and makes them searchable, launched yesterday - for the second time, and it may not be ready still. upswing over the past year as vertical search services become popular among more sophisticated surfers. Still, Google has had issues with publishers over indexing copyrighted material. Pixsy has covered that base, in large part, due to its partnerships. But, it remains to be seen how publishers outside that partnership will react. The site is supported by contextual pay-per-click advertising and its partnerships, and has future plans for licensing to other companies. The partnerships it already has, like with The New York Times and the BBC, provide a very interesting photojournalism experience with the latest photos from those publications and the ability to click and find the articles associated with them. That's one aspect that makes this service stand out among other image and video search engines. However, where it already has trouble is in relevancy. A search for Paris Hilton, for example, brought up few (or none) images of her on the first page. Instead, they were photos of other people, or a little here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web