Wanted: A list of stock photography companies/and or/search engine
companies/or venture capital companies that either have licensing
office or are receptive to new products. I have found standard CEO
addresses on the Web, but my proposals seem to go to receptionists or
assistants who seldom respond.
Here?s my idea that I?d like to get financing on or outright sell. 

Do you have some great photos in a shoebox somewhere, going nowhere
but out of date? At this moment an editor at a magazine, book
publisher, ad agency, or graphic house is looking for that photo. Or,
it may be a gallery owner, college student, or consumer. You could be
earning money from those photos. And you?d also experience the
exhilaration of seeing your picture(s) used in a national or
international publication with your credit line.

I have developed a system where photobuyers can connect with photo
suppliers (you don?t have to be a professional or fulltime
photographer). It?s called the PhotoSourceBANK. This is not an idea in
embryonic stage. It is already up and running on the Web. And it uses
any major search engine to power the routine.

The premise: Most people who are trying to find a specialized photo on
the net use the classic (last century) method: they look at images.
Ouch! That method wears out eyeballs. The sensible technique is to use
a text search. For example, if you were a textbook editor and needed a
picture of a Monkey Slug Caterpillar, go to a search engine and type:
Monkey Slug Caterpillar photosource. You?ll quickly find the ?source?
of this photo and the photographer will probably have a deep selection
for you to choose from. (Ask to see a selection on a lightbox.)

Try out the system at www.photosource.com/bank Choose an obscure
subject. Please don?t choose hot air balloons, or sunset, or covered
bridge. You can easily find these in standard stock photo agencies, or
even shout out the window and twenty photographers will run down the
street to show you their selection.

As the search world advances, this ?text? search system will fit right
in when photobuyers realize their needed image is available for sale,
and the source of that image can be located in a matter of seconds.
Also, once photographers or the owners of collections of former
photographers realize they?ve got a gold mine up in those attic boxes
filled with pictures, we will see a new picture-finding industry
emerge.

Now here?s my question. My system has amassed about 1.3 million text
words and descriptions of photos (people pay me $4.95 monthly to have
their list of up to 3,000 words on a web page I provide them on the
PhotoSourceBANK.) But my repository is only 1/20th the size it ought
to be. It takes money (backing) to get this system up to where it
should be. Can you supply a list of potential buyers or backers? Would
the major search engines be interested in this unique use of a search
engine? How can I learn who the product development managers are at
the search engine companies, or at venture capital firms dealing in
the field of arts/hobbies/photography?
Thank you for your attention to my question.