Leading Ukranian portal turns on image search Picsearch expands into Ukraine with META
Stockholm, Sweden, July 20, 2010 META, the first Ukrainian search engine has launched image search services for its users and selected Picsearch to provide the technology.
Portal META is one of the most visited sites and offers users a full suite of search services, now including image search. META specializes in indexing Ukrainian sites using its own web search technology.
Yuri Logvinov, CTO at META, said “Image searching in Ukrainian language is challenging and we needed a partner who could deliver both local results and also have a compelling, family friendly, international index. Picsearch was the obvious choice.”
Robert Risberg, CEO at Picsearch, said “We’re honored to be selected by such a well known local brand. Internet penetration in Ukraine is still growing rapidly and we look forward to supporting their continued success.”
For more information please contact:
Robert Risberg, CEO at Picsearch
Tel: +46 (0) 8 641 2233
E-mail: robert.risberg@picsearch.com
Yuri Logvinov, CTO at META
Tel: +38 (057) 706 3926
E-mail: info@vip.meta.ua
About Picsearch
Picsearch AB (publ) is a premium provider of online video and multimedia search services. Picsearch’s flexible and reliable video solutions power market leading businesses online. Picsearch multimedia search services are market leading in relevancy and family friendliness and power numerous leading Internet sites as well as its own Internet properties. Picsearch was founded in 2000, is privately held and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information please visit about.picsearch.com.
About META
META is the leading Ukrainian portal with a number of search services, Ukrainian web search and directory, news search, yellow pages, e-shops, price search, classified advertizing search, location and map search. Portal META was founded in 1998 and headquarted in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
For more information please visit meta.ua
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