Tired of Google’s boring old look? Try a visual search engine! My favorite is SearchME; it is fast, good, and nice looking. It allows you to browse results like an iPhone, by scrolling and has an “old” Google style minibar that allows us Google traditionalists to use it easily and still have the cool visual effects. Oh, I just realized, the whole point of the visual search engine is to see the page you are about to view. (Don’t worry, there is a filter so you don’t see the things that are not very family friendly).
Recently the concept of visual search has become popular with Google investors investing on a multimillion dollar project called SearchME. There are other search engines too, these are meta search engines (they usually submit queries to other engines and get the results and display as one list/map) so today I decided to talk about the best 3 leading Visual search engines. Visual search will be the next big step in search after the invention of Google.
SearchME
This is the new project taken over by Google investors which is still in private beta, but they are giving access to new users who are willing to sign up for the project. I got my acception immediately. This takes your query and renders the results as thumbnails and arranges them like the interface of i Phone. This works more like the browser Spacetime3D , but the processing and rendering is done server side. In Spacetime 3D rendering is done client side so the user needed a real good graphics card and quite a bit of RAM. For SearchME you don’t need all that just a good Javascript compatible browser like Firefox would do.
Quintura
This displays all the search results and Keywords as categorized clouds, saying that its much faster than other visual search engines and you can set the quality of rendering (less quality loads much faster… medium is better looking and smooth) they also give you a widget to embed and give their search capabilities to your blog/site users. This is the engine which gives users most options and functionality.
Kartoo
This is the world’s first ever visual search system. This is my favourite for 2 reasons, Its a meta search engine (takes the results from other engines and displays them as a cloud), Loads of related links (with very close relevance) which makes the searching a wonderful experience. This uses flash to display images and for all these three you will need flash and JavaScript compatible browsers. This also has multi language support.
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