http://www.solutionwatch.com/30/yotophoto-free-photo-search-engine/ Solution Watch surveys the bleeding-edge of the productivity world, reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today's best services all day and every day. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:37:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.solutionwatch.com/30/yotophoto-free-photo-search-engine/#comment-4782 Thu, 18 May 2006 19:17:24 +0000 http://www.solutionwatch.com/30/yotophoto-free-photo-search-engine/#comment-4782 [...] Yotophoto.com Sector: online photo search (for Creative Commons, public domain and other free-to-use images) Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Management: Mark Thomson. Previous startup was a brick and mortar + e-commerce “action sports” retail operation. Funding: Private. Secret Sauce: Search engine for free-to-use images including Creative Commons, GNU FDL and public domain media. Yotophoto indexes free images from sites like Wikipedia, Flickr, Stock.Xchng, the US government, and many more. Advanced search options allow searching by license, image size and boolean keyword matching. Yotophoto also uses an advanced keyword stemming algorithm to maximize the accuracy and breadth of results. The site has become very popular with bloggers, educators, students, designers and digital artists and each one of these users sees Yotophoto differently. For example, students and teachers are often looking for photos of historical significance (mainly from the Wikipedia) while graphic artists tend to search out textures and clean high-res shots of a more artistic nature. Bloggers on the other hand, tend to vary their searches more widely depending on the topic de jour. Future plans include implementing tools to aid in the re-mixing, re-using and re-publishing of the images. All the while helping the user remain compliant with the the various license requirements (such as source attribution). Yotophoto currently indexes “well over a quarter-million images”. Seen and Heard: The Philadelphia Inquirer write-up. Yotophoto was covered on episode 263 of G4TechTV’s ‘Call For Help’ program. Quote: “WOW, THIS IS GOOD…”  - Leo Laporte Full transcript here. Also on SolutionWatch , ResearchBuzz, LockerGnome and an interview with Mark here. [...] […] Yotophoto.com Sector: online photo search (for Creative Commons, public domain and other free-to-use images) Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Management: Mark Thomson. Previous startup was a brick and mortar + e-commerce “action sports” retail operation. Funding: Private. Secret Sauce: Search engine for free-to-use images including Creative Commons, GNU FDL and public domain media. Yotophoto indexes free images from sites like Wikipedia, Flickr, Stock.Xchng, the US government, and many more. Advanced search options allow searching by license, image size and boolean keyword matching. Yotophoto also uses an advanced keyword stemming algorithm to maximize the accuracy and breadth of results. The site has become very popular with bloggers, educators, students, designers and digital artists and each one of these users sees Yotophoto differently. For example, students and teachers are often looking for photos of historical significance (mainly from the Wikipedia) while graphic artists tend to search out textures and clean high-res shots of a more artistic nature. Bloggers on the other hand, tend to vary their searches more widely depending on the topic de jour. Future plans include implementing tools to aid in the re-mixing, re-using and re-publishing of the images. All the while helping the user remain compliant with the the various license requirements (such as source attribution). Yotophoto currently indexes “well over a quarter-million images”. Seen and Heard: The Philadelphia Inquirer write-up. Yotophoto was covered on episode 263 of G4TechTV’s ‘Call For Help’ program. Quote: “WOW, THIS IS GOOD…”  - Leo Laporte Full transcript here. Also on SolutionWatch , ResearchBuzz, LockerGnome and an interview with Mark here. […]

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