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Video Search by Pixsy

Search engine Pixsy Corp. had stated that next week will be launched a site that hunts the Web for celebrity photographs. The new service plans to become the largest aggregator of videos and photos of all kinds of celebrities, from Mel Gibson to Samuel L. Jackson to Tiger Woods.

The site will offer advanced browsing and sorting functions, and an AJAX interface. Pixsy CEO Chase Norlin said: "The site can locate a couple hundred thousand photos and videos, and growing, just for the celebrity service. It`s all the latest images. If something happened to a celebrity a minute ago, you`ll catch it at Starhabit."

In a related study from the Online Publishers Association earlier this year, it was found that 58 percent of consumers said they rely on a small set of video sites to find content. There is a huge potential market for video search with the "dizzying proliferation of video content," said Anthony Iaffaldano, marketing director at search engine marketing firm Reprise Media. Google has begun to offer video search as well, but the way Pixsy is attempting to catalog all the video on the Web seems rather more advanced.