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 Viewzi`s various views of searchIn the first part of this article I introduced you to Viewzi, a visual search engine that takes a different approach to visual search by suiting the interface to the type of query made by the user. I only showed you a couple of Viewzi's views. In this article, I'm going to show you a figure of the other views, comparison results with Google, and eventually discuss Viewzi's possible hereafter. Since Viewzi is a visual search engine, we'll sketch with a visual search. My hunt term is "brass goggles," and I'm going to start with the basic photo view. This view now searches Flickr and SmugMug; at the time I wrote the previous article, it searched Riya alternatively of SmugMug. And by the time this article is published, it might hunt different sites, although Flickr will likely still be in the mix. Chalk it up to Viewzi's beta position and the hunt for the combination that will give searchers the best consequence. Anyway, here's a silver screen shot of my consequence:
So what's awesome here? This is the view with small mental image. As you'd expect from Viewzi if you read my previous article, you can hover your pointer over any image you want to see a large version of it, along with its title and URL. This is the default look of the basic photo view, with small mental image; you can alteration to large mental image with just a click of your mouse. Even after devising this alteration, you can hover over mental image to view larger versions. In other words, you can view every image in three different sizes. The 3D Photo Cloud is a quirky view that takes a little practice to fig out. Here's a silver screen shot to give you a basic idea:
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