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Pixsy.com is a new image searching site. It"s already getting a lot of attention. We"re happy to announce that they"re including iStock images in their searches.

Everytime someone clicks on an image thumbnail at Pixsy, it takes them straight to the file index page at iStock. That"s all there is to it – quick links to your images from a huge and growing external index. It"s going to bring a lot of new buyers to iStock, from all over the internet.

Currently, we"re a little ways down in the indexing. That will change as more people hit iStock from the Pixsy url. We"re pretty confident that, given our image quality, and the size of our collection, we"ll be at the top of the results in no time.

I tried a few searches, for example "Group Business" (my favourite!) and had some of my images from Fotolia appear on first page - then lots of crap and no useful photos from iStock unless you consider swans as a business group. I can't see how this will really help sales unless it gets support from the agencies to ensure great (and appropriate) photos appear in the searches. Otherwise people are just going to get confused/annoyed.

I just tried it and found a couple of my bird photos on the first page of results.  Both from Fotolia.  They are both on iStock as well, but found no results from them.  Maybe in time...

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I did a search on 'genesis' 'bible' 'beginning' not because I'm religious or anything (I'm not) but because my best-seller on iStock (with a flame) is a close-up shot of the first page of a Victorian bible.

The first image was an iStock one and was quite relevant. Not mine though    and one that has sold less than mine 

After that, nothing but crap for several pages, including an astonishing number of verticals lying on their sides. The photographer hadn't even bothered to rotate the image.

I never did find mine. Got bored with the rubbish and gave up.

I can't see any serious image buyer using this.