XCavator.net - Search for Cool Photos & Images

Need a new photo or graphic image for a new company or website you are starting? Or maybe for your blog? Xcavator helps you find those images through the more than 2.1 million images it has online. You can search visually or through a category/key word search. You can then buy the image through this site. A cool feature (and why they believe they distinguish themselves from other similar photo search engines) is the ability to focus on a particular object in a photo and look for more of that particular object (say, a red apple). You will then get more images of just red apples or photos with red apples in them. You can even direct the site to find that same object with a different color or intensity, as it has tools like that on the side. It"s pretty fun to explore, actually. The site gets a small cut of every image sold through its service.

At xcavator.net, image search is fast and painless. Its award-winning visual search technology makes any photo search task easier, more intuitive, and more precise. Most image searches today are based merely on tags or color screening methods, leaving users to scroll through hundreds of photos that may or may not be relevant to what they’re looking for. But xcavator picks up where other image search engines leave off. Built on CogniSign’s patent-pending Intelligent Image Recognition Technology, xcavator’s image search engine allows you to quickly and easily sort through large databases of photos for similarities based on shapes, colors, image composition, object proximity, or any combination of these factors. xcavator combines human intuition with the efficiency of powerful computers to change the way we search for and manage all types of digital images and photos.

With more websites and blogs coming online daily, there is a growing market for visual images to fill these sites. This site helps to improve and expedite the search for the perfect photo or graphic, which can help the do-it-yourselfer or the professional designer searching for that perfect image.

Are they making a profit? Do people need a more refined search engine when looking for visual images? Why wouldn"t people just use the originating site for may of these photos as opposed to using this site? Is there a reason they haven"t received venture capital yet?