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Thanks for building this! I actually obsess about having high quality logos for companies in the pitchbooks I write, so have built a personal collection over time... it's not big, but it has the companies I care about.

Some things I thought I'd share from that experience:

* The hardest thing is knowing which logo is actually the most recent and therefore correct. Searching logosear.ch for, say, IBM, yields countless logos that are virtually identical, as well as some of their products (which is fine) but also many old logos like this[0], which I don't think is what your user would want to find 9 out of 10 times (i.e. as a user, if I'm looking for a niche / ancient logo, I don't mind doing the research on my own and understand it will take a while. But when I want "the right logo", I'll consider visiting a specialized logo search engine to get the right result and get it fast)

* In my experience, The best sources for finding the company logo in SVG format are:

- company website header (hit or miss as SVG adoption at first was slow, but it's increasingly good for S&P 500 type companies and tech-savvy firms... anything outside of that venn diagram is pretty bad)

- Wikipedia page either in English or in the language matching the company's headquarter (i.e. better luck with German companies in de.wikipedia.org)

- For large companies where both of the above fail, I search for "company name filetype:pdf" and look for vector logos embedded into those files, then use Adobe Acrobat to extract them in a very manual and ugly process by deleting unnecessary pages / content and cropping, and then visiting cloudconvert.com to generate a SVG (hey, it works...)

* One final comment is PowerPoint doesn't take SVG files, so I always have to convert them to .emf or .wmf before dropping them in, so maybe you should consider exporting your SVG file in other formats too, though probably not limited to just those two

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0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Logo_1956_1972.s...

Would you be willing to share your collection of high-quality logos with the community? I can index any github or gitlab repo with logos.

A lot of the current sources are people's personal collections that they have shared.

This is actually how I started: I made my personal collection into a website (https://www.vectorlogo.zone/). My collection is more curated, definitely in terms of size/layout, and hopefully more current, but curation is a lot of work, and not what I'm trying to do on LogoSear.ch.

I do have an SVG to PNG converting working on VLZ. I think there are open SVG to EMF/WMF libraries, so I could add that as well, but I would need some help testing it since I'm not a big PowerPoint user. Would you be willing to help?

PowerPoint does support inserting SVG files. Microsoft added SVG support a few years ago, but it might only be available for 365 subscribers.

Looks useful.

Feedback: the result rendering is very "jumpy" due to logos loading in one at a time.

You could either render sized wrapper containers for each logo, or load them in in the background and only show them once ready (with a loading indicator somewhere).

I have tried various solutions, but nothing that works better than what's there now.

I only force the height for the logos, not the width, so wrapping doesn't really improve things.

Waiting to display until they are all loaded kills the "instant" tagline. I'm hotlinking the images, so some images can take awhile.

In theory you should be able to get the natural height and width of the image before loading it. Not exactly sure if it works with SVGs but it does work with PNGs

Yeah, you could get the size of the images at indexing time, and return that in the search result.

You are assuming that I actually load the image at index time: I'm really only indexing the file name.

And getting the width/height of a minimized SVG requires rendering it (or at least more SVG mojo than I possess).

He's suggesting your index store the filename, height & width, and retrieve all 3 on search

You can use preconneft tags to make the browser preconneft to the likely source of the images. This usually gives a pretty big boost in speed because browsers will have already connected (DNS + TLS handshake) to the icon source's CDN.

It's a non-issue, don't sweat it.

Did not find a logo for Logosear.ch though!

Heh. You got me! That'll be an easy one to fix though

Very cool... I think I found a bug, in that results from a prior entry would come up on a new entry...

For example, I typed mercedes, then selected all and amg over that... in the end, some mercedes results showed on the amg screen... should probably tag your search request with the value in the input, and abandon the request/results if they no longer match.

Sigh. I hate debugging timing related issues that I cannot duplicate. But I already include the input in the search results API response, so your suggestion should work. I'll try it shortly.

You were not kidding about the 'instant results' part. I like that, as well as the domain name.

.ch is great!