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June 3, 2008
Visual Search Engine Viewzi to Launch This Month
Visual search engine Viewzi has been in private beta for quite some time now, but they've just announced they expect to launch to the public this month.
Since it's visual, a wordy blog post just isn't going to do this news justice. So I've created a screenshots for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to leave your reaction in the comments!
Viewzi main search page
Viewzi's search menu offers several options for viewing results
Video search displays results from popular video sites. Some of the videos are played in fast forward right in the results page. In Viewzi, mouseover an individual result to see the title of the video.
Web screenshot results show search results in a cover-flow style. I like this because you can easily see which pages are educational, shopping or parked domains.
Photo view is similar to video view, displaying image search results in several rows.
Simple text view combines results from Yahoo and Google and looks similar to traditional text-based search results.
Four source view displays website screenshot results from Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN. To remove one of the sets of results, just click on the search engine name that you do NOT want to see displayed. Mouseover a result for a larger view.
Celebrity Photo View is not just an image search for photos of celebrities. Instead, it's the name for the way the results are displayed, which looks like a photo album or scrap book and features a slick drag and drop feature.
mp3 View shows results of mp3 files related to your search. You can even listen to the files in your browser instead of opening additional applications which can use up valuable memory on your computer.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on June 3, 2008 9:29 AM
Comments
Daerid June 3, 2008 10:30 AM
...and there will be additional views and new features when we launch. :-)
-giovanni
viewzi evangelist
giovanni gallucci June 3, 2008 11:04 AM
btw...we've made some beta invites for SEW readers. head over to http://viewzi.com/invites and use "sewatch" as your referral code for access.
-giovanni
viewzi evangelist
giovanni gallucci June 3, 2008 11:08 AM
Umm...Isn't this just like using google image search or video search with the PicLens addon for Mozilla Firefox!? So, nothing really new here! Good idea though!
Harsha June 3, 2008 1:18 PM
looks alot like searchme.com
jf June 4, 2008 7:31 AM
I started using it in beta before they launched after seeing a blurb about them on the local news here in Dallas. I like visual search and several other things about them including the ease of listening to an mp3 and searching you tube videos, also the combo search with Google and Yahoo is pretty fast and there is still enough difference in the two engines results are deeper. Their floating photos search is cool just type in a celeb name and you see interesting results , if you are trying to select a photo to enlarge it you can get kind of dizzy. Hey Wiewzi figure out how to search my own bookmarks (7000 or so)visually on your search page and I really will be a fan. Closest visual thing that I found is a plug in for FireFox called "link preview" and it doesn't work that well all the time maybe because I am using Firefox version 3 I don't know? But visual search is much easier when you can remember what the page looked like rather than a text search. I have been on the web since 1994 and I think Viewzi is heading in the right direction, much luck.
Kent July 9, 2008 3:49 PM
okay, that's pretty sick...