Viewzi Opens Its Door To The Public

Duncan Riley — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:35:19 +0000

Viewzi, the visual search engine I described back in May as “visual search nearly done right” has opened its doors to the public.

According to the Viewzi team, the private beta program has been “a great success” with nearly 10,000 users on the site after a couple months. They claim that during this time they’ve ironed out “dozens of bugs” as well, and based on user feedback are planning new features.

I gave it a shot again for this post and the one thing I did notice: the still combined search results but Google seems to get the lead, delivering superior resulted then last time. Overall assessment: go and give it a try, at the very least it’s pretty, and I can still see myself regularly using this.

Viewzi: Visual Search Nearly Done Right

Duncan Riley — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:17:28 +0000

Viewzi is a new visual search engine in private beta testing that delivers a usable, attractive interface.

Unlike some other attempts at visual search engines, Viewzi offers various contextual views via a top menu on each search under the premise that different people will want different types of searches. Options include a site/ thumbnail search, images (+ Flickr), a simple (traditional) text view, and other options including weather and even search via TechCrunch story.

The interface is simple and pleasing on the eye, and navigation is easy.

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira at Profy thinks that Viewzi is a winner, saying that “I never expected to say this, but Viewzi is the one visual search I can see myself switching to. All I need now is a Viewzi toolbar.” She’s right, it’s by far the most pleasing visual search engine I’ve used, and the ability to switch between views (including simple text) has a lot of appeal. My only gripe: they combine Yahoo and Google search results, with a anecdotal preference to Yahoo (it seemed that way) on the visual search. If I could turn Yahoo off and stick with Google I’d feel better using it, and the results would be better as well.

We don’t have invites, but Profy does: visit here if you’re quick and grab the code.

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Viewzi Opens Its Door To The Public

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