10 Realtime and Reliable Photo Search Engines
A little mention for PicFog on TNW
PicFog is a real-time search for images powered by Twitpic, Yfrog, and Twitgoo. PicFog allows for quite a bit of fun.
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3 Tools to See Fresh Images Shared Online
(The other two are reddit and flickr - what a nice club to be a member of!)
With practically every upturned garbage can or broken car window documented, police could rummage through Twitter to piece together what happened. Photos uploaded from the event are laid out neatly on a search engine called PicFog.
— Giants win sparks high-tech ‘riots’ in San Francisco, CNN
Venezuelan elections
Venezuela took over PicFog on Sunday - it was great to see a couple of newspapers using the PicFog widget:
- Caravanas de motorizados “rojos” merodean por Caracas (fotos)
- Las elecciones parlamentarias, en fotos ( y en tiempo real)
Also some other mentions / tweets:
- Muchas muchas fotos en tiempo real de todos ustedes sobre la participación electoral este #26S
- A tweet by the host of a popular tv show in Venezuela (with 50000+ followers!)
It was a good exercise for the widgets, we killed a couple of small bugs / annoyances too.
I have been showing Picfog to my journalism students for many reasons. I think Picfog offers a way for journalists to find ideas for stories and also to find people to interview. The fact people took a photo means they were at the location where the photo was taken, so they might make useful eye witnesses. I think Picfog is a fascinating tool.
— Stephen Quinn
Hhha! I don’t have to do a PicFog pitch video, it’s already done!
In a nutshell, […] returns great results, far more relevant than Google, whenever you’re searching for a topic that’s been widely discussed lately. And on the social web, everything of importance is widely discussed. Google needs to step up to this challenge, quickly, before it finds itself late for the real-time search train.
— PicFog Displays the Strength of Real-Time Image Search - Mashable

