Image search race: Polar Rose, Pixsy, Snap, Ookles, Riya — list is getting long
Google and Yahoo have image and video search, but they’ve kept things to themselves, oddly not syndicating these for other sites to use like they have with their text search engines.
No doubt, they will do so soon. Meantime, a host of specialized image search and recognition companies has sprouted up. Here are the latest ones:
Pixsy of San Francisco, may be the company to watch. They’re the only ones offering to license image and video search… Continue Reading
Pluggd “perfects” audio and video search, raises $1.65M
Declaring it has “perfected the user experience” for audio and visual search, Seattle start-up Pluggd has raised $1.65 million from Intel and angel investors to help it start distributing its technology.
If you haven’t played with Pluggd, you should. It provides that “wow” experience, giving you what you intuitively want when searching video: a way to skip forward to the exact part of the audio or video file you are looking for. We’ll be hearing more… Continue Reading
Redfern, an optical transmitter co., raises $7M more
Redfern Integrated Optics, a developer and manufacturer of high-performance optical transmitters for communications, said it has raised an additional $7 million from TMT Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital and Jolimont Capital.
This is another one of the multiple companies founded during the telecom bubble year of 2000. It has raised about $32 million, and somehow has survived the downturn.
The company cites a recent report from CIR, a market research and consulting firm, which says the market… Continue Reading