Stock Photo War of the Widgets

New York, NY (June 9, 2005) – As ‘War of the Worlds’ cruises into
theaters, the War of the Widgets has also begun for the multi-billion
dollar stock content licensing industry. In the battle for desktop
search, StockPhotoFinder.com has entered the fray by offering photo
buyers a free Widget to facilitate searching the databases of stock
photography agencies and commercial photographers.

This free tool roars from the Mac Tiger Dashboard (OS 10.4), empowering
users with simplified search directly from their computer desktop of
millions of stock photos from all kinds of websites. Similar in
functionality to a web browser, the Widget is faster, more direct and
easier than other options for searching commercial imagery. It
leverages the dynamic, new Dashboard technology from Apple Computer.
59% of StockPhotoFinder.com users search for stock imagery on Macintosh
computers.

Desktop search is emerging as a significant access point to various
markets. Major search engines have encouraged the trend with their
general search tools. Not surprisingly, it is also a growing area of
interest for niches, such as licensees and licensors of commercial
photography. StockPhotoFinder’s Widget offers image users the ability
to conveniently search for databased images, download and try out
watermarked previews in a design layout, and then directly contact the
rights holder for e-commerce or assisted licensing.Licensors of
content want to target market image users where they work (on their
computer, these days) while users desire the speed and convenience of
doing one search in seconds to find what previously took many minutes
at multiple websites. The StockPhotoFinder.com Widget offers a win-win
scenario. StockPhotoFinder.com is the only company to take advantage of
this advanced technology with its search of multiple, stock photo
website databases.

This Widget is now available for free download from
www.stockphotofinder.com/stock-photo-widget.html, Apple.com and from
several shareware websites.

Once downloaded into the appropriate folder, this Widget appears in a
“Dashboard” of services on the users desktop, always on standby to
enable one-click image search of images from databased content websites
via the unique stock photo search engine at StockPhotoFinder.com.

StockPhotoFinder.com is a leading centralized source to locate millions
of images in the stock photography industry. The search engine, the
first of its kind in the industry, offers the full inventory of scores
of recognized stock photo sources, fully searchable by keywords,
enabling thumbnail viewing and direct contact with image providers.
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For more information about StockPhotoFinder.com, including possible
interviews with company officers, screen grabs, biographies and other
materials for expanded articles, please contact the company at (212)
929-6965.
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Randy Taylor
rtaylor@StockPhotoFinder.com
StockPhotoFinder.com, Inc.
1123 Broadway, Suite 1006
New York, NY 10010
phone: 212 929 6965