Pixaria Software
Pixaria allows users to search for images by entering keywords into a site wide search form. When keywords are entered and saved for an image, Pixaria looks them up in an index to see if there are any images that match the search. Pixaria is able to look for matches against the image title, caption, copyright holder and a special keywords field.
Whenever you import an image in to the Pixaria library, you can add or edit the keywords and keyphrases associated with that image using the built in keyword editor on the image import, and edit forms.
Pixaria allows you to import IPTC metadata when you add images to your library and any keywords or keyphrases entered into your images in applications such as Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, Aperture or Adobe Lightroom will automatically be imported and be made searchable.
Because searches are not case sensitive, it doesn't matter whether the keywords you enter are upper or lowercase.
By way of an example, you might enter keywords for a photo of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris like this:
monument, arc de triomphe, paris, france, arch, place charles de gaulle, champs elysees, outside, urban, neoclassical, historic
Boolean searching makes it easy for users to run complex and very specific searches which can be useful if you have a large library of images. For example, searching for dog AND cat will return images with both of the keywords dog and cat while a search for dog OR cat will return any image that has the keyword dog or cat or both.
In addition, you can use the 'not' operator to exclude search results. For example, dog NOT cat will find all images which have the keyword dog but not the keyword cat.
To extend this even further, you can also group your search terms together and use parentheses to specify how a search is performed.
From Pixaria 2.0 and above, there is full support for multiple word key phrases like "American football" or "Palma de Mallorca". To find these phrases in your library, you can enter the keywords enclosed by double quotes which will force the search engine to match the exact phrase.
Search term: dog and cat
Will return images with both of the keywords and cat.
Search term: dog or cat
Will return any image that has the keyword dog or cat or both dog and cat.
Search term: dog not cat
Will return any image that has the keyword dog but not the keyword cat.
Search term: dog and (cat or mouse)
Will return any image that has the keyword dog and cat or dog and mouse.
Search term: dog not (cat or mouse)
Will return any image that has the keyword dog but not cat and dog but not mouse.
Search term: dog and 'mexican hairless'
Will return any image that has the keyword dog and the exact phrase Mexican hairless.