Pixsy
Sector: visual web search
Headquarters: Seattle and San Francisco
Management: Chase Norlin
Secret Sauce: Scouring RSS feeds for FRESH images! It’s a visual search engine that aggregates RSS feeds, extracts photos and video thumbnail images from the feeds and indexes and organizes the images into categories. Traditional search engines focus on relevancy, wheras Pixsy’s focus is on FRESHNESS and does not use a third party service — it has its own engine. Pixsy collects content from RSS feeds, resulting in searchable photos and videos. Users can search and browse news photos, sports photos, celebrity photos, etc. Pixsy searches RSS feeds from providers including Reuters, The New York Times, YouTube, C/Net, StupidVideos.com, BusinessWeek, USAToday, iVillage, StarPulse, Variety, Golf.com, the BBC, and more. Instead of hosting and serving the content directly to users, Pixsy drives traffic to RSS feed providers where users can view the material.
Seen and Heard: C|Net writes “A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures.” I’m excited about this company because I’m constantly searching for images, and it’s a frustrating process when the same 10 images come up every time. It’s great to see that NEW pictures of X will come up every time I search and this is a timely development……Image search was the fastest-growing form of search on Google, Yahoo and MSN in the last year, up 91 percent from February 2005 to February 2006,

Pixsy
Sector: visual web search
Headquarters: Seattle and San Francisco
Management: Chase Norlin
Secret Sauce: Scouring RSS feeds for FRESH images! It’s a visual search engine that aggregates RSS feeds, extracts photos and video thumbnail images from the feeds and indexes and organizes the images into categories. Traditional search engines focus on relevancy, wheras Pixsy’s focus is on FRESHNESS and does not use a third party service — it has its own engine. Pixsy collects content from RSS feeds, resulting in searchable photos and videos. Users can search and browse news photos, sports photos, celebrity photos, etc. Pixsy searches RSS feeds from providers including Reuters, The New York Times, YouTube, C/Net, StupidVideos.com, BusinessWeek, USAToday, iVillage, StarPulse, Variety, Golf.com, the BBC, and more. Instead of hosting and serving the content directly to users, Pixsy drives traffic to RSS feed providers where users can view the material.
Seen and Heard: C|Net writes “A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures.” I’m excited about this company because I’m constantly searching for images, and it’s a frustrating process when the same 10 images come up every time. It’s great to see that NEW pictures of X will come up every time I search and this is a timely development……Image search was the fastest-growing form of search on Google, Yahoo and MSN in the last year, up 91 percent from February 2005 to February 2006,