Cydral announces today the second version of its Image Search Engine

Cydral announces today the second version of its Image Search Engine

PARIS (France), August 24, 2005 – Cydral, a French major search engine dedicated to Web images, reaches a new milestone with the V2 release of its engine and more than 150M indexed images. Aldric Pierrain, founder of Cydral, says: “Cydral is a smart search engine, which aims to offer an alternate solution to find images on Internet. Thanks to our visual technology, Cydral delivers high-quality, relevant image searches our users search for everyday!”.

Web site: http://www.cydral.com
Contact: press {at} cydral(.)com

Cydral Review

○ Boolean searching: “+” can be placed directly in front of a term to require it, while “-” can be used to exclude a term;

â—‹ Default operation: multiple search terms are processed as an AND operation by default, to return most relevant results;

â—‹ OR operation: find images that include either of two (or more) terms;

â—‹ Spell checking: based on Cydral index, this software is able to suggest common spellings even for proper nouns;

â—‹ Case sensitivity: searches are not case sensitive;

â—‹ Stop words: by default, very common words, such as ‘the’, ‘of’, ‘is’, etc., are ignored. However, they will be searched if preceded by “+” operator;

○ Filters to focus results: domain search, name search and URL search using respectively “site:”, “name:” and “url:” keywords;

â—‹ [Unique] Meta Tags searching: IPTC information are indexed by Cydral spiders;

â—‹ [Unique] Family filter feature: offensive content is eliminated by specially designed filters, included a filtering process based on visual classification;

â—‹ [Unique] Browsing through results by visual content: for easy access to indexed images, Cydral provides a navigation feature by visual content;

â—‹ [Unique] Cydral Syndication: thanks to its advanced XML module, Cydral drastically simplifies its technology integration into an external partner engine.

â—‹ [Unique] Cydral Toolbar is an effort to protect children from inappropriate online content. About Cydral Toolbar Using its innovative Visual Technology, Cydral also provides an Internet Explorer plug-in to protect children from viewing unwanted sexual material.

The latest free official release can be downloaded at this address: http://en.cydral.com/ctoolbar.html

About Cydral.com

Founded in 2003, Cydral syndicates its technology to search engines and portals to enable them to complete their own search package by acquiring powerful image search capabilities. This company is the first one to offer a real time feature to browse results by visual content. Cydral is headquartered in the France capital, Paris.