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A picture can be worth a thousand words, but an RSS feed is worth a million pictures.

That’s the virtual promise of Pixsy, a visual search engine that scours syndication feeds (in the format of Really Simple Syndication) for up-to-date images and then makes them searchable.

"Anywhere there’s an RSS feed, we consume it, extract an image…and make it searchable," said Chase Norlin, founder of the San Francisco-based company.

As opposed to search giant Google, which retrieves relevant pages from billions of Web sites, Pixsy hones in on the freshest images from publishers, Norlin said. "So you can now explore the Web visually."

The site, which is built with AJAX technology, will collect a thumbnail image from an RSS feed automatically and then associate words, or metadata, with that image based on the news or information from where it came. Pixsy then uses that data to associate images with search terms.

via C|NET.