Next week Danita Delimont Stock Photography, LuckyOliver, 123RF and Fotolia will officially join the image platform of San Francisco - based Xcavator, powered by CogniSign and it´s technology.
The Xcavator.net portal was launched in Beta eight months ago in May 2007.
Together with the already accessible images from iStockphoto (image provider since July 2007) and PhotoVault, Xcavator showcases now 5,3 million microstock images from four microstock agencies and nearly 500,000 RM images from two RM agencies.
The images from the four new partners are already online on Xcavator.
Xcavator explains that "additional providers will be added selectively over the next few months, with the goal of providing an inventory of more than 10 Million photos", then making "xcavator.net one of the largest stock photo search portals in the world".
Despite their different origins, approaches and their different feature lists, similar new image platforms mixing RF + RM + microstock + Flickr + SmugMug and other visual content providers are BrightQube, ImageTrail, PictureSandbox and SPFFY (alphabetically).
In case you´re not familar with "Visual Search" -- meanwhile a widely exploited term on the internet and initially born by "CBIR" (Content-Based-Image-Retrieval) focussed companies like Idee Inc., LTU Technologies and VIMA Technologies (alphabetically) -- there´s an introduction video on Xcavator explaining their approach.
Related:
- Short Remarks on SPFFY beta
(Oct. 24, 2007) - BrightQube with 2 ex-DR VP´s "revolutionizes" the way the world finds images
(Sept. 18, 2007) - ImageTrail.net: The first microstock only photo portal, Q&A with Founder & CEO Peter Galbraith
(July 25, 2007) - PictureSandbox: Searching 36 Million Creative Commons Photos
(May 08, 2007)
Note: The history of FlickrCash/PictureSandbox has its ups and downs.
