Picsearch

Picsearch
Company typePrivate
IndustrySearch Engine, Streaming Video
FoundedStockholm, Sweden (2000)
Defunct2022
Headquarters
Stockholm
,
Sweden
Productsimage search, Online Video Platform
Websitewww.picsearch.com Screen9 - Online Video Platform

Picsearch was a Swedish company which developed and provided image search services for large websites. The image search services developed by Picsearch power several major Internet companies, such as Lycos.[1] Other Picsearch customers include regional search portals in Germany,[2] Turkey[3] and an Arabic language portal.[4] Customers outside the sphere of search portals included telecoms, entertainment sites, e-commerce,[5] sport websites, yellow pages and communities.[6] In January 2022, the official website was changed to declare "We had a great ride. R.I.P. Picsearch 2000 - 2022" and its usual service pages went dark.[7]

Picsearch also developed an Online Video Platform under the brand name Screen9 which is used for video communities, vlogging (video blog), video reviews on e-commerce sites, corporate video presentations, news videos and virtual showings on real estate portals.[8] Screen9 continues to be in business. The video streaming service includes flash player, upload, transcoding, hosting and streaming. Some features of the service are flexible quality (bitrate, resolution, codec), user interaction (action buttons, ad support, rating etc.) and branding possibilities (logotype, off-site embedding, player branding, mobile support etc.).[9][10]

  1. ^ Picsearch enters alliance with Lycos, Inc., Picsearch. May 2, 2005. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  2. ^ WEB.DE chooses Picsearch to power image search. Picsearch. November 9, 2006. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  3. ^ Turkish portal joins hands with Picsearch. Turkish Daily News. June 11, 2007. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  4. ^ Maktoob chooses Picsearch to power image search. Picsearch. January 17, 2007. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  5. ^ 1.7 Billion Images on Price Comparison Site. Picsearch. June 29, 2006. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  6. ^ Picsearch provides image search to community-powered search engines - Swickis. Picsearch. June 13, 2007. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  7. ^ "Picsearch". archive.st. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
  8. ^ Picsearch powers video for Europes largest real estate company. Picsearch. November 26, 2007. Retrieved on December 3, 2007.
  9. ^ Tysk miljonaffär till svenska Picsearch. IDG. November 28, 2007. Retrieved on December 3, 2007.
  10. ^ Bostäder visas med webbteve. Dagens Nyheter. November 28, 2007. Retrieved on December 3, 2007.