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Posts Tagged ‘image search’

Adding Solr to our Search Platform

Get ready for a lightning quick site. Cutcaster is getting a much needed upgrade to our search platform, database and virtual servers.  Over the next two weeks, we will be testing out Solr which we will be adding to our database  in order to speed up the Cutcaster site in general. If you don’t know [...]

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Google Image Swirl- New way to cluster photos and illustrations

Google just released and is testing out a different way of accessing image searches by placing image results together using a cluster. This new tool is called “Image-Swirl” http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/ Try a search at the site and  you will see stacks of images served up to you. When you select one of the image thumbnails, a [...]

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Search Update

We are liking the new search and it is really returning better results. Keep the feedback coming. We just released another new tweak that photo buyers, image researchers and those looking to license vector files will hopefully like and use. Filename search is functional on live. You can now search by watermark filename (which is [...]

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Brand Spanking New Search Relevancy Algorithm Released

The engineers at Cutcaster just completed Phase I of our first major upgrade to photo and vector search and have released the latest, never before seen, jazzed up search engine to the live site this evening. Take it for a test spin and let us know what you think. The search returns are more evenly [...]

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