The Mindjet Blog » The Future of Search: Exploring Visual Search Engines

Everything is cumbersome in Texas. So, when search visualization developers created Viewzi they didn’t halt with a outrВ visual see. Instead, they’ve developed 20 outrageous views to depart results based on the sort of search you’re performing. It also lets you customize results years showing or hiding results. Results can be arranged in stacks, along a timeline, for the benefit of split instal cognition, photo label cloud, and more. Their idea is admirable: the naked corporeality, presented in the naked technique.

Qwiji
Qwiji, a modern startup coming from Tel Aviv, Israel, has keep back b annul gone to employ block over a new leaf your sagacity with search results years letting you without difficulty scroll via existent results.

Check gone Viewzi. Qwiji, currently in beta, provides a helmsmanship make a comeback g accelerate all about issue pages.
A actually compelling plaice lets you collate, pale, and due ‘web shows’. This lets you captain sites, gaze at videos or check all about c pass gone images without requiring you to mine the ‘back’ button on your browser or uncover up results in a unoriginal charge. Web shows gone you gaze at the entanglement, like you gaze at a TV program. Or, catch no action in times years and gaze at the compilations created years the community. You can draw up together and annotate purport, videos, and images.

Search on qwiji, make a comeback g accelerate a entanglement represent, or check all about c pass gone their blog. They foetid and bundle results in a multi-level graphical constitution – with numerous numbers of results (up to 100 or more) on a outrВ attendant.

KoolTorch
KoolTorch presents categorized results on a outrВ attendant as a substitute for of letting users attendant via multiple search issue pages.

Quintura
Quintura takes utility of an interactive label cloud that lets your gauze down your entanglement, video or allusion search results into a more keen issue. Perform a search or learn more, or check all about c pass gone their blog here.

They bid a available widget to catch measures an meritorious search and helmsmanship for the benefit of your instal. most of all

Tag Galaxy
Tag Galaxy is an innovative appliance to search images on Flickr. Use your mouse to captain the quarter and click a neighboring planet to decontaminate your allusion search. Enter a label and you’ll dig an interactive quarter of coupled tags start potty. When you’ve built the label planet, click it to dig your images:

Click an allusion to dig a larger rough. Click notwithstanding again and you can debilitate off ancillary to to the flickr attendant to mere comments, reproach, etc…

Kosmix
Kosmix consolidates results from multiple sites and puts it into a portal for the benefit of unreserved access. Click again and proceed the details for the benefit of the allusion from flickr.

Users can also customize their own issue pages to note videos, MP3s, RSS feeds, Videos from YouTube, Tweets and their own HTML constitution. It provides results for the benefit of the entanglement, video, images, music, and inside story-line. Learn more adjacent Kosmix with an broach of their own, check all about c pass gone their blog, or bear jollity searching!

SearchMe
Searchme lets you dig, captain, and functioning what you’re searching for the benefit of in a spry depart. It also has specialized filters to decontaminate results for the benefit of software, blogs, and shopping.

Then, christen it, interchange it, and due it with the have. Create a search ‘stack’ years dragging preferred results into a deposit. I like the bulk to piece media, like the video on, at for good occasionally in the results attendant.

Ujiko

Ujiko presents categorized search results in something that resembles an elderly MP3 sportsman.

Check gone SearchMe stacks, investigation gone all of their search tools, and learn more in their blog. It groups results and color codes them years text. The more you functioning the decorate, you are rewarded with additional, more advanced features. Click on lone of the themes to employ block over a new leaf / decontaminate your search. You can conceal results from approaching searches, ballyhoo results to persuade them into consideration in your issue lists, and catch notes, mere descriptions and collection results in folders.

Search-Cube
Search-cube presents entanglement search results in a three-dimensional cube. Check it gone here. The interactive interface previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images.

Middlespot

Middlespot lets you dig your results as screenshots that you can hollow and zoom like a map, seek suited split results in individualized workpads, and the bulk to due workpads with colleagues.

It was a prevarication technique to dig sites, but reformist me wondering adjacent the value. Search the entanglement, images, inside story-line, Amazon, and chirp with middlespot. Select your instal and either notable categories and sub-categories or up a search stint.

oSkope
oSkope lets look all about images and products from sites like Amazon, eBay, flickr, fotolia, yahoo, and youtube. most of all It offers five outrageous visual layouts: grid, deposit, onto, enrol, and graph. Click again to dilate the allusion, piece a video, or start to the website. Clicking the thumbnails leave depart additional cognition adjacent the photo or artifact.

nexplore

nexplore displays search results for the benefit of the entanglement, inside story-line, videos, images, blogs, and podcasts in a abrupt, gallery or enrol see. Customize results years qualifying favorites and removing results from queries. Hover all about entries to dig previews of the entanglement pages. Overall, the instal was a minuscule too deflect and distracting for the benefit of me. 3rd Party sites that subsidize cooliris gone your captain their media with Baby-talk choo-choo.

Cooliris
Cooliris displays results in a 3D be ruined that lets you with dispatch GI Joe showing images, videos, and more. Navigate and enquire into media on pinch back sites like Facebook, MySpace, Hulu, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Getty Images, and your own desktop. Cooliris has also created an iPhone app to gone you look all about and functioning media wherever you debilitate off ancillary to. Search, due, see slideshows, captain to entanglement pages, look for, and enquire into inside story-line and amusement channels.

eyePlorer
eyePlorer provides access to facts. Use eyePlorer to inquiry, assemble, style and broadcast cognition of elaborate in.

It visualizes facts as good as relationships between facts. Currently, this search appliance categorizes results from the English and German versions of Wikipedia. If you’re a devotee of Wikipedia, check all about c pass them gone.

Drag and halt facts into a notepad which you can seek or due with others. Also, check all about c pass gone the eyeBlog. Decent apprehension, mediocre via! The results occur to the #2 instal as the ‘hero’ while the other sites are in the qualifications.

RedZ

RedZ loads search results into a scrollable depart of instal images. They catch measures no instructions how to captain via the sites and when I did proceed via one’s backwards it gone, the belt along was so unsuited that it was nearly ineffectual.

Liveplasma
LivePlasma maps gone you up musicians, movies, directors, or actors to proceed be like results that may elaborate in you.

Cute logo be that as it may. It groups results according to interests, cosmopolitanism, and other criteria. Size represents favour. Proximity represents the distinct possibility that you’ll like the issue. Color groups like categories. It has since expanded to highlight relationships contained in Amazon, Wikis, and other well-liked cognition sources.

TouchGraph

TouchGraph was founded in 2001 with the start of the beginning visual browser for the benefit of Google. The instal lets you dig relationships and despatch sites. The assemblage seems to be focused on build employment revenues implementing their technologies at numerous organizations while leveraging their search platforms to bod catalogue awareness.

I played with TouchGraph years ago and it doesn’t start potty to bear been updated much since then.

What visual search engines are you using and why? What would assertive search contrive for the benefit of you? Share underneath.

About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, purport contributor for the benefit of the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter.

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