Comments on: Xcavator.net: Visual Stock Photo Search

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By: Bryan Calkins, Founder and CEO xcavator.net (CogniSign)

Bryan Calkins, Founder and CEO xcavator.net (CogniSign) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:26:50 +0000

I’m posting to let everyone know our site has been reconfigured to handle the kind of load it received last week from this Techcrunch posting (and other blog postings at the same time). Please accept my sincere apologies for the problems.

xcavator.net is a fantastic visual browsing experience when working properly, as it is now. I urge all of you to check it out again. Responding to complaints about our company not preparing properly for a Techcrunch blog posting; well, we certainly tried. However, it is a very sophisticated site and we do not currently have automated testing systems in place to put it under the heavy load it experienced last week. Someday before too long we will have them.

Thanks, Duncan, for a great review.

By: Jebediah Jackson

Jebediah Jackson — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:09:03 +0000

our site sucks, but hey we’re in beta. It’ll be good in a couple of years. Honest it will.

By: Image Squad

Image Squad — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:57:13 +0000

Ouch….on the site problems. Seeing a lot of startups really not thinking through their network architecture before putting themselves out there.

Getting a write-up on Techcrunch is important….and should be able to handle the attention. Hard to have a redo on first impressions and this crowd is tough.

Interesting search implementation though…we’ll see.

By: Boogie

Boogie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:50:06 +0000

The problem is: Xcavator searches images in Photovault’s database which is not really cool, since each one of those images cost a fortune. Too bad. What’s the point then? I want to be able to download those images for free. Integrate more site, not just Photovault. Not that I’m not willing to pay, but $50 per image seems absurd to me. Bad idea, Xcavator folks.

By: Matt@TeamXcavator

Matt@TeamXcavator — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:46:54 +0000

We’ve had incredible traffic from this posting and other blog postings, and are experiencing some site problems. Please keep in mind we are in BETA. We’ll be working through these as quickly as we can. The site gives a fantastic experience when working well. Thanks to all for your patience and interest.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:02:33 +0000

yeah loads slow as hell ;

– too many competitors /

– and the site is generally weak.

By: Jean Witter

Jean Witter — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:49:30 +0000

Cool and great. Got also a problem to load the site.

By: Samuel Grolli

Samuel Grolli — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:30:42 +0000

I made a post about this site yesterday: http://www.tech...k-photo-search/

By: Alexei Yavlinsky

Alexei Yavlinsky — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:29:59 +0000

I have been working on a similar content-based image search engine that indexes images from one of the Flickr groups (and also from the WWW). What makes it different from search engines like Xcavator or Riya is that you can *verbally* specify what the photos should actually look like, rather than just choosing colour or looking for similar images. E.g. "find pictures tagged with london that *look* like images of buildings" (where the images do not necessarily need to be tagged with 'building' to be found). Video demos of how it works are here. And the search engine itself is here. I would really appreciate your feedback on this early technology. Thanks! Alexei

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:12:13 +0000

Brent is right, the site doesn’t load.

By: av

av — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:37:05 +0000

there is loads of stock photography sites. i like real photos from getty images etc.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:19:00 +0000

Great idea and executed very well.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:08:58 +0000

Man alive you sure this isn’t a secret attempt by Jerry Yang to incorporate flickers back end into a new face. I am seeing alot of similarities.

Either or I am seeing huge lag times when loading which means some people are actually using it unlike flickers or there is a lack of bandwidth or the standard 200 ports a second default connection limitation needs to be removed … Duhhh either or I like it just its so dam slow.

By: SutroStyle

SutroStyle — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:42:29 +0000

Sounds like the next big thing. Is this going to be funded by Sequoia or by DFJ?

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:54:44 +0000

Brent
I didn’t have any issues with load time, and given my distance (literally the other side of the world to the US) and crappy 2mb internet connection I’m sure I would have noticed

By: patricia

patricia — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:32:59 +0000

Cool. I’m really into visual search for a project i’m working on related to a non profit. I am glad to find more sources for this. Right now, the real stuff is still, I guess, at the research/university level and it has a long way to go, but the ability to do it effectively could change a lot of things in the world.

yay, duncan! great article!

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:32:25 +0000

Sweet! 10 minute load times. I’m sure that will work perfect for most people looking to skim through stock photography.

By: Gadgetize

Gadgetize — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:32:01 +0000

Yeah, these kinds of services have a ton of room for improvement. Reminds me of product suggestion, it’s one of those things that see,s like it could be so much better but has been sort of stagnant for years.

The color search isn’t revolutionary, but it is nice, and useful. One more player here at least directs more attention to the problem and increases the chances of bigger improvements.