12 Facts About Picsearch

Picsearch was a Swedish company which developed and provided image search services for large websites.

Picsearch developed an Online Video Platform under the brand name Screen9 which is used for video communities, vlogging, video reviews on e-commerce sites, corporate video presentations, news videos and virtual showings on real estate portals.

Picsearch was launched in 2000, and the first public version of the image search engine was available in September 2001, around the same time that Google launched its services.

Picsearch service was slightly more expensive than Google and Yahoo, but according to many of its licensing partners, provides a higher relevance and better family-friendliness.

Picsearch was notable for providing one of the largest searchable indexes, providing over 3 billion images in 2017.

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Picsearch offered an image removal service for those wanting their images removed.

Picsearch services included localization features to tailor the search service to regional markets.

Picsearch supported the following languages: Latin alphabet, Chinese characters, Cyrillic script, Arabic alphabet, Brahmic scripts, Hangul, Greek alphabet and Hebrew Alphabet.

The Picsearch initiative was followed by promises from Yahoo in April and Google in June to go carbon neutral by the end of 2007.

In July 2007 the Swedish National Criminal Police started working with Picsearch to incorporate a special filter, which will block the visibility of 4000 websites with commercial child pornography.

Picsearch has developed all of its search service in-house, including spidering of the Web, indexing of image, video, and audio files, and an efficient way of distributing the results to users from all parts of the world.

Picsearch's algorithms are patented in Sweden and patent-pending in the EU and the United States.