New image search engine - with a focus on image use.

http://www.nagellen.com/2009/09/sprixi-exciting-new-startup-with-a-great-ui-design/

by Goldy • 17 years ago

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Ixiaus• 17 years ago

I upvoted you for the good link, but I also want to say that I like the way you titled your post. It would be nice if more users would give their post a more concise epithet.

truebosko• 17 years ago

Some minor issues with slightly not safe for work images showing up on terms like 'christmas' but apart from that .. love the interface. Didn't notice the size-o-meter though on first try.

Goldy4• 17 years ago

Thanks for the feedback truebosko. I agree it's not ideal and I'm playing around with various ways to solve it. I think a combination of community rating and moderation will be the long term solution.

wmwong• 17 years ago

The site is pretty sweet. I like how it simplifies the usage terms and lists out what is important.

I know it's an image site and that probably means the pages are pretty heavy, but the pages do seem a little slow. I wonder if I would get annoyed by the sluggishness after long-term use. Any speed increases would probably be worth the effort.

troymc• 17 years ago

Is there a way to find images with a particular license (e.g. CC-BY)?

Goldy4• 17 years ago

No. Currently Sprixi shows CC commercial-ok licences and public-domain-like licences. So CC-BY images are indeed shown, but there are no filters to hide the others.

It's on my to do list :)

msort• 17 years ago

Looks great. Do you use your own crawler?

Goldy4• 17 years ago

Thanks. Currently it only uses Flickr, OpenClipArt and uploaded images. So it's not exactly a crawling search engine as such, more a search tool. Frankly I'm not interesting in indexing millions of images, I only want the useful ones!

I do want to add to the list of websites it talks to however. WIP.

leecho0• 17 years ago

I'm quite confused by the technology behind this. I tried searching for "leather wallet," and it said that the term is being established, and currently has no results (while wallet gave me quite a few). Does this mean that you only index pictures after someone typed in the term?

I like the front end, but it seems like the search engine needs some work to find useful pictures.

Goldy4• 17 years ago

You are correct. It pulls images on the fly from flickr (more sites to come). Two word searches are not very successful at the moment.

Of course feel free to copy images from "wallet" to "leather wallet". Though you need to register to do this.

Thanks for the feedback.

pierrefar• 17 years ago

Searching for "google" returns a lady in a bikini as the first result.

mahmud• 17 years ago

Link: http://www.sprixi.com/

It's a pretty sweet service; saves me from the Flickr and Photobucket "search engines".

New image search engine - with a focus on image use.

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