Picsearch

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. Other Picsearch customers include regional search portals in Germany, Turkey and an Arabic language portal. Customers outside the sphere of search portals included telecoms, entertainment sites, e-commerce, sport websites, yellow pages and communities. 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

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Company.name: Picsearch
Company.logo: Picsearch Logo.png
Company.type: Private
Company.foundation: Stockholm, Sweden (2000)
Company.defunct: 2022
Company.location_city: Stockholm
Company.location_country: Sweden
Company.industry: Search Engine, Streaming Video
Company.products: image search, Online Video Platform
Company.homepage: www.picsearch.com Screen9 - Online Video Platform

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Official website: about.picsearch.com

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inception: 2000-00-00
native label: Picsearch

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History
Features
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Family-Friendliness
Localization
Language Support
Environmental policy
Censoring child pornography
Development and patents
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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. 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.).