Visual search engine Xcavator launches
Xcavator, the visual search engine that lets professional designers and others find images they want and buy them, has launched.
We wrote about the San Francisco start-up six months ago when it was still in closed testing.
Xcavator lets users drill down further into a picture to find similar features on other photos.
Take an example. Let’s say you want an image of an old-fashioned popcorn box. You type in popcorn in the seach bar, and Xcavator… Continue Reading
Xcavator joins race in visual search
Visual search technology is still in its infancy, but a number of new start-ups are pushing the possibilities forward — the latest being Xcavator.
Riya’s Like launched recently (see our coverage), giving users a way of highlighting a shoe, or part of a shoe, and then look for similar shoes within its database of retail items — and so is helping with comparison shopping. You’ll notice, though, that Like operates in a controlled environment, allowing search… Continue Reading