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October 23, 2007

Pixsy To Power Search Engine On LastMinute.com

Duncan Riley

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pixsy.jpgMedia search platform provider Pixsy has signed a deal with bargain hotel and travel site lastminute.com that will see Pixsy operate a travel focused video and image search engine at lastminute.pixsy.com

The new service will allow users to search millions of travel photos and videos while simultaneously shopping for travel services.

Pixsy has been on a roll of late, signing deals to power search on sites including Veoh. Pixsy CEO Chase Norlin said that the partnership is a great example of Pixsy’s ability to provide vertical media search solutions to websites in various content categories.

Pixsy was named a Top 50 Coolest Website by Time Magazine and first reviewed by TechCrunch in August 2006.

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  1. Blueverse

    October 23rd, 2007 at 11:48 am

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  1. Rajan Tawate

    October 23rd, 2007 at 11:49 am

    Pixsy seems to be on a roll. I wonder if it has a integration api for third party sites.

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    Custom Social Networks

  2. FakeMA

    October 23rd, 2007 at 11:59 am

    Why dont these sites try for a googl custom search engine based solution?

  3. sera

    October 23rd, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    FCuK you. OiNK is down. And what do you say.

  4. Chris

    October 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    PING pixsy.com (64.94.134.200) 56(84) bytes of data.
    PING lastminute.pixsy.com (64.94.134.210) 56(84) bytes of data.

    OK, so lastminute.pixsy.com is a named host, because if you reach the IP directly in a browser 64.94.134.210 the httpd default file is to some lasvegas search.

    OK, so they have all the IP range between 64.94.134.200-64.94.134.210

    Take a look at their other websites - paste the ip in your browser address bar
    http - 64.94.134.204
    An XML feed, seems innocent enough ?
    http - 64.94.134.203
    An HTTP Auth? This looks like a control panel or development server
    http - 64.94.134.202
    Wait this is the control panel
    http - 64.94.134.209
    A porno search ??? Smuttys? Was this the beta?
    http - 64.94.134.209
    The default host is reviewjournal.com but lastminute is a named host on this one.

    At any rate I thought it was kind of funny. They clearly own the entire IP block. Smuttys was especially amusing.

  5. Ed Morsen

    October 23rd, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    These guys are on a roll. Cool. I’ve checked their site for an API, and found some good stuff, and widget stuff on pixsypower.com.

    Btw- Chris - what’s your point?

    ED

  6. Chris

    October 23rd, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    My point is that it’s funny that the instant new tech comes out it’s instantly used for pornography, but that is some how never mentioned as part of the repertoire of implementations.

    Chase Norlin also owns http://smuttys.com as per the whois records on the domain.

    Not saying it’s a bad idea, just funny that’s all. It happens a lot.

  7. Darin Carter

    October 23rd, 2007 at 1:13 pm

    if I was looking for a last minute trip, I don’t think I would be worried about looking at pictures of where I’m going … I should already know … if it Last Minute!

    Darin

  8. Steve Ballmer

    October 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Nothing to say ….

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  9. Jono

    October 24th, 2007 at 2:53 am

    Has anyone actually found this service useful? I sis a search for some locations and the results were crap and all the thumbnails just linked to other sites which had nothing worth seeing….

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