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Visual Search Platform Viewzi Launches Timeline View

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:30:18 +0000

Visual search platform Viewzi launched “The Timeline” view this week. We reviewed Viewzi back in April, but they’ve added a whole new experience to their search platform with this new lens on content. Now you can look up something like “iPhone apps” and you’ll receive a plethora of search engine results from left to right, rather than top to bottom.

When you mouse over an article, the article lights up in blue and gives you a brief description. From there, you can click on the blue box, which will give you a larger snippet of text as well as a screenshot of the page and the date of the article. From there, you can click a green button and be on your way to the page.

Search engine result pages are displayed from top to bottom in order of relevance and are colored from light blue (most relevant) to dark blue (less relevant). Pages are also displayed on the timeline from right to left according to the last updated timestamp. Viewzi gets its timestamp data from Google.

The timeline is expandable, and you can drag a white bar across the top of the screen to search older results or scan more recent results. One thing I wish Viewzi had in the timeline view is the ability to get rid of some of the results (for my own viewing purposes), by offering me a little X at the top of a single result. Or at least the ability to hide a result so I could sift through more of them.

Overall, this has always been a remarkable looking search engine, so timeline view is a great addition to the package.

In other Viewzi news, the team is also developing an iPhone app that gives you multiple views (text, photo, etc.) and will let you bookmark your favorites under your Viewzi account.

They’re also building an Adobe Air desktop app that functions as a media player/browser with Viewzi built in as the default search engine. You can watch the video on YouTube.

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PicLens 1.7 Released: Now With ESPN, Movie Trailers, And Amazon Shopping

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:30:03 +0000

Source:Mashable!
Visual browsing of webpages and media is an increasingly attractive prospect for Internet users. Names like Viewzi, Searchme come to mind, as do inventions like Tag Galaxy and even MSNBC’s Spectra RSS news reader. This weekend, one market player, PicLens, developed by Cooliris, is stepping forward with some advancements and additions to its engine.
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Trulia Launches Snapshot Visual Search Tool

Thu, 29 May 2008 19:00:37 +0000

Source:Mashable!
In the world of Web celebrity, few have become as well-known in the past year as Veronica Belmont, who first gained acclaim as host of CNet’s Buzz Out Loud, then moved onto Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo Daily, and most recently took the reigns at Revision3’s Tekzilla Show. Along the way, she even interviewed our own […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Veronica Belmont’s Top 10 Up-and-Coming Web Applications”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/29/veronica-belmont-favorite-apps/” });

Source:Mashable!
Trulia, a real estate search site which stands among the best in the business and which offers users detailed discovery of properties for sale as well as quite detailed analysis of real estate markets, has launched a new utility called Snapshot, powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth, that overlays housing data atop an interactive map that […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Trulia Launches Snapshot Visual Search Tool”, url: “http://mashable.com/2008/05/29/trulia-snapshot/” });

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