RedZee offers visual search engine
Searching for something on the web can be a daunting task, no doubt, and different search engines have tried to offer unique ways on conducting searches and displaying results.
Searching for something on the web can be a daunting task, no doubt, and different search engines have tried to offer unique ways on conducting searches and displaying results.
Ask.com, for example, encourages you to ask questions using plain English, such as “What time is it?,” while Clusty, on the other hand, segregates results into specific subgroups to help you better find what you’re after.
Today I came across RedZee, which gives you a visual representation of your search query results – not unlike Microsoft Vista’s Flip 3D feature or Apple’s Cover Flow for album artwork.
For example, if you type "Golden Retrievers," you’ll be able to use your mouse to scroll through the golden retriever-related website snapshots by holding down the button and dragging left or right – so you can easily locate the site (or kind of site) you need thanks to this visual information. When you see a site you want, simply double-click it to bring up the page full-screen.
I haven’t played around with RedZee for any great length to see how accurate the search results are – which, after all, the most important quality of a search engine – but I like what I’ve seen thus far.
Oh, and can anyone tell me what kind of animated, er, animal, greets you on the RedZee main page? Anyone?
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of course it's a red marble zebra! not to be confused with the standard red stripe zebras, which are an endangered species. (that may be why they chose the red marble species.)
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