Pond5, a content marketplace for high-quality royalty-free video, has developed a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) search engine that allows users to search by images instead of words. The artificial intelligence that drives Pond5 Visual Search gives customers the ability to show, rather than tell, what they're looking for. Eliminating the difficult task of trying to put a visual concept into words, Visual Search delivers instant results for licensable media with a similar look to any file a customer chooses. This technology recognizes patterns in shape, color and composition, and compares them to the tons of images and clips that already exist on the Pond5 platform in order to find similar results. According to the company the technology is a patent-pending AI-based Visual Search engine which gives users the ability to discover media based on existing imagery.