Visual search uses images, rather than keywords, to find other images and relevant information associated with them. Given an image query, the visual search software extracts visual features and searches through an index of images to find those that are most similar to the query. Superfish has developed a general purpose, robust and scalable visual search system.

We are a visual search company that has developed the Superfish Visual Search Engine: the first and only technology to analyze an image algorithmically and deliver similar and identical images in real time without the need for text tags or any human intervention. We are technology enthusiasts, computer scientists, and mathematicians who have been working for several years on visual search technology. Our vision is that visual search will one day allow people to use any picture at any time from any place as a search query. Superfish has headquarters in Silicon Valley and R&D in Israel. We are backed by investors including venture fund Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), DFJ Tamir Fishman, IVF, and Xenia.

The Superfish Visual Search Engine takes an image as a search query and returns identical or similar results in real-time. This ability to deliver similar image results is an extremely complex mathematical problem (orders of magnitude more complex than delivering identical image results) that Superfish has solved through a proprietary patent-pending algorithmic process. Our technology extracts the "visual fingerprint" of the query image and compares that data to our index of images to find the most similar results. To see the Superfish Visual Search Engine in action, install WindowShopper, the product comparison browser add-on tool. Over two million product searches are currently being served each day by Superfish.

While the Superfish Visual Search Engine can handle any type of image, we are currently focused on retail products. Our current index includes over 150 million products from thousands of US, UK, and German merchants in every product category.

If you are an online store selling products in the US, UK, Germany, France or Australia, your products need to be available in a feed as part of a comparison shopping engine (e.g. PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, , Shopping.com, etc.) or an affiliate network such as LinkShare or Commission Junction. If you are part of one of those networks, just select us as a publisher and have your product feed available to grab.

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Visual search uses images, rather than keywords, to find other images and relevant information associated with them. Given an image query, the visual search software extracts visual features and searches through an index of images to find those that are most similar to the query. Superfish has developed a general purpose, robust and scalable visual search system.

For the end user, Superfish Visual Search for the Web enables instant price comparison and the ability to see similar items on millions of products in thousands of stores. For the developer or publisher, Superfish Visual Search for the Web is an excellent way to deliver a great new user feature while also generating revenue. Superfish visual search results for products are all monetized with affiliate links.

There are two ways to access our visual search platform. The easiest way to get our visual search functionality on your app or site is through a simple javascript injection. We can provide you with a customized line of code that you inject onto web pages. Another option is to use our API where you can develop a much more customized visual search experience for your users.

Our javascript injection option creates an end user experience similar to our WindowShopper browser add-on product.. We offer some customizations and even a "white label" option where you can private-label the branding to match your product offer.

Our Superfish Search API allows a client to perform a visual search for a given image. More specifically, the API allows the client to send in an image URL or the image itself and our system will return a set of visually similar product offers in JSON format. The client is responsible for displaying the results. Contact us for more details and technical documentation.

Nothing. In fact, we pay you for traffic you drive to our advertisers. To learn more, go to the Contact Us page and send us an email.

Superfish Visual Search for Mobile is a platform accessible through an API that enables mobile app developers to send images into our system and receive similar images and/or product offers in response. For example, you can build an iPhone app that sends in images of shoes and our system will return similar-looking shoe product offers from merchants.

Contact us so that we can understand your use case and determine whether our API is right for you.

Our Superfish Search API allows a client to perform a visual search for a given image. More specifically, the API allows the client to send in an image URL or the image itself and our system will return a set of visually similar product offers in JSON format. The client is responsible for displaying the results. Contact us for more details and technical documentation.

Superfish Visual Search for Mobile is a platform accessible through an API that enables mobile app developers to send images into our system and receive similar images and/or product offers in response. For example, you can build an iPhone app that sends in images of shoes and our system will return similar-looking shoe product offers from merchants.

Nothing. In fact, we pay you for traffic you drive to our advertisers. To learn more, Contact Us.

WindowShopper is a browser add-on that uses Superfish visual search technology to display deals and similar items for any product online. Once installed, it will present a See Similar icon next to product images on thousands of online stores in the US, UK, Germany, France or Australia. When one clicks on the See Similar icon, WindowShopper opens up and displays deals and visually similar products from hundreds of stores. Click on a result and you are taken to the store where you can learn more about or purchase the item.

WindowShopper uses Superfish visual search technology to analyze product images on a website to identify which products to display from our index of over 100 million product offers from thousands of merchants. With just one click, users can see offers for any product from thousands of merchants across the web.

WindowShopper currently works on Firefox 3.5 through .7x, Internet Explorer 8.x or 9.x and Chrome. Requires Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and MacOS X.

We index over 100 million product offers from thousands of retailers including Amazon.com, eBay, Best Buy, Macy's, Target, and Walmart.

Since we have no registration process, we have very little personally identifiable information about our users. At install, we do capture the user's IP address so that we can customize the results by country. And we do anonymously track the searches conducted by our users. You can read more in our Privacy Policy.

WindowShopper is a browser add-on that uses Superfish visual search technology to display deals and similar items for any product online. Once installed, it will present a See Similar icon next to product images on thousands of online stores in the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia. When one clicks on the See Similar icon, WindowShopper opens up and displays deals and visually similar products from hundreds of stores. Click on a result and you are taken to the store where you can learn more about or purchase the item.

Uninstall instructions for Internet Explorer browser:

1. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a Program
2. Select Window Shopper > Uninstall

Uninstall instructions for Firefox:

1. Within your browser, go to Firefox > Add-ons > Extensions
2. Select WindowShopper > Disable or Remove

Uninstall instruction for Chrome:

1. Within your browser, go to Customize (the wrench icon on the right) > Tools > Extensions
2. Search for Superfish, FastestChrome, Read Later Fast, or 2YourFace and then click > Options.
3. From there, uncheck the Add Similar Product Search feature.

If WindowShopper does not appear on your list of add-ons or programs, you are probably receiving our functionality through one of our distribution partners. In that case please go to the respective Options menu to disable the price comparison feature, or if you have questions please email us at [email protected]

We search through millions of images by visual features. Sometimes, two products in different categories may share so many visual features that our algorithms think they are similar.

We currently cover merchants in the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia.

You may be selecting a product that we either cannot identify or for which we have no better offers.

We currently support Firefox 3.5x for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 as well as for Mac OS 10.4+. We also support Internet Explorer 7 or 8 for Windows XP, Vista, and 7.

Send us email at [email protected].