Want a search to knock ya socks off?! The power of visual search

Viewzi is certainly a different way to search!

When you search for keywords using Viewzi, instead of getting one big long list of millions and millions of sites, you instantly get a to make a choice about how you will see the results.

There is a selection of around about 12 unique visual views to choose from, which then adapt for the content you are looking for. Some results are very broad but the fact that the results can be visually filtered is a very powerful thing. There's news, celebrity gossip, shopping, recipes and the one I like the most, a 3D photo search of flickr. Here is a screen shot of a search I did using the 3D photo search. You can check out the search here.

First I searched for 'fish', then by clicking on the screen I added 'goldfish' and then finally 'aquarium'. You can zoom in, click individual photos, follow the photo URL or add more or delete the results and start again.

If you then decide to try looking at another view, Viewzi remembers your original keyword no matter what view you choose. So I can now search for fish recipes, recent news stories about fish, fish mp3s, or screen shots of websites about fish.... The list goes on and on and on.

Tags: cooltools visual literacy search visual viewzi
Posted at 11:22AM Jul 02, 2008 by Alison Hall  |