Yahoo has confirmed that it has acquired image search specialty startup IQ Engines to use the company’s technology in its Flickr photo service. The financial details about the merger have not been disclosed. After the acquisition IQ Engines is no longer registering new customers and existing users will have access to their content till September 22.

A message on the IQ Engines website read “IQ Engines is joining the Flickr team at Yahoo. As longtime Flickr fans and fellow photography enthusiasts, we look forward to working on improving photo organization and search for the community.”

IQ Engines stated in an announcement, "At IQ Engines, our dream has been to transform the way people search and browse their photos by helping to process them intelligently. We are excited to take things to a global level with one of the most widely used photo services in the world."