founded stockholm sweden 2000 headquarters stockholm sweden products image search online video platform slogan picsearch innovating image search screen9 delivering inspiration website www.picsearch.com screen9 online video platform picsearch is a swedish company which develops and provides image search services for large websites . the image search services developed and provided by picsearch power several major internet companies such as lycos . 1 other picsearch customers include regional search portals in germany 2 turkey 3 and an arabic language portal . 4 customers outside the sphere of search portals include telecoms entertainment sites e commerce 5 sport websites yellow pages and communities . 6 picsearch also develops and provides an online video platform under the brand name screen9 which is used for video communities vlogging video blog video reviews on e commerce sites corporate video presentations news videos and virtual showings on real estate portals . 7 picsearch video streaming service includes flash player upload transcoding hosting and streaming . some features of the service are flexible quality bitrate resolution codec user interaction action buttons ad support rating etc. and branding possibilities logotype off site embedding player branding mobile support etc. . 8 9 contents 1 history 2 features 2.1 coverage 2.2 family friendliness 2.3 localization 2.4 language support 3 environmental policy 4 censoring child pornography 5 development and patents 6 references 7 external links history edit picsearch was developed and founded in the year 1999 2000 at link ping university by two engineering students nils andersson and robert risberg who were working on their master of science in applied physics and electrical engineering . their goal was to improve relevancy create a larger index and to introduce family friendly and spam filtered results . the company was launched in 2000 and the first public version of the image search engine was available in september 2001 around the same time that google launched its services . 10 11 ditto.com was the first public image search engine . 12 features edit the picsearch service is slightly more expensive than google and yahoo but according to many of its licensing partners provides a higher relevance 6 13 14 15 and better family friendliness . 3 4 16 17 18 coverage edit picsearch is notable for providing one of the largest searchable indexes providing over 2 billion images . this compares with google 2.2 billion images and yahoo 1.6 billion images . 19 family friendliness edit family friendliness implies that all sexual nudity pornography and violence is removed by an automatic filter . picsearch also offers an image removal service for those wanting their images removed . localization edit picsearch services include localization features to tailor the search service to regional markets . 20 21 language support edit picsearch currently supports the following languages latin alphabet chinese characters cyrillic script arabic alphabet indic scripts brahmic family hangul greek alphabet and hebrew alphabet . environmental policy edit on the 22nd of march 2007 picsearch implemented a new environmental policy 22 making them the first carbon neutral search engine in the world . 23 the picsearch initiative was followed by promises from yahoo in april and google in june to go carbon neutral by the end of 2007 . 24 the policy consists of four steps picsearch plants 1000 new trees for every gigawatt hour consumed . picsearch buys and holds in trust 2 acres 8 100 m2 of old growth forest for every gigawatt hour consumed . picsearch only uses electricity that is carbon free and follows the highest standard of production . picsearch buys carbon credits equivalent to all the energy that picsearch consumes . 25 censoring child pornography edit in july 2007 the swedish national criminal police started working with picsearch to incorporate a special filter which will block the visibility of 4000 websites with commercial child pornography . introducing the filter on picsearch and other search services the police authorities are trying to make it more difficult for users to find child pornography . 26 27 the initiative has sparked some discussion in sweden and japan as to whether or not the police authorities are extending their powers whether the filter threatens freedom of speech and whether the real reason for introducing the filter is to establish a precedent for denying access to other information as well . 28 development and patents edit picsearch has developed all of its search service in house including spidering of the web indexing of image video and audio files and an efficient way of distributing the results to users from all parts of the world . picsearch s algorithms are patented in sweden and patent pending in the eu and the united states . 29 30 references edit picsearch enters alliance with lycos inc. picsearch . may 2 2005 . retrieved on july 11 2007 . 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