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A totally new search experience at BrightQube
The stock photo industry is rife with claims of “new” technological advances designed to make the process of finding images much more intuitive and easier for the picture researcher. In essence, however, these features involve minor improvements to an on-line search method that, over all, has changed very little for the last several years. Recently, BrightQube, a relatively new company on the stock photo scene has launched a new search technology that can truly back up the claims to being “new” and different from all the others.
The most distinguishing feature of BrightQube’s technology is the way it displays search results. Rather than bring them up on pages of 12 to 100 images, all the images from a given search appear on a single page. That single page can hold thousands of images which are displayed as thumbnails, much smaller than typical thumbnail-size images, but large enough so that the researcher can quickly tell whether an image might be of interest. Only a small number of the thumbnails appear on the screen, but, using directional arrows, the screen-view moves up, down and to the left and right, allowing the user to scan the thumbnails all over the single page, rather than clicking “next” and waiting for each new page to load. The experience approximates scanning physical 35MM slides on a wide light-box.
According to founder, Lee Corkran, BrightQube’s search technology still has many refinements to come. For example, the system’s advanced search does not have a search-within-results feature, yet. The company is quickly establishing itself as a popular portal with a growing list of RF suppliers that already includes Corbis RF, most Jupiter RF brands, Blend, OJO, and PhotoAlto, among many others.
Website: BrightQube.com
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post a comment »john, November 01, 2007 [#]
i met Lee at picturehouse and he had some really interesting ideas for what BQ could do. I’ll be interested to see how they organize their searching in the future and also whether they start to license their technology to other sites.