Most of us are pretty familiar with how search engines present results: a page of text results, sometimes with small page previews. What if you wanted to see your search results in a more visual way? Enter visual search engines, of which there are more popping up every day. Here are three that have caught my eye this week:
OSkope presents results in a grid, stack, pile, list, or graph, and pulls results from Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Youtube, and a couple of other sites. Very cool how the images zing into the search results field.
SearchCube gets its results from Google, but presents them in a 3D cube. You can flip the cube up, down, turn it round and round, and then click on something that interests you.
Out of the three we've looked at here, I think that Tag Galaxy is my favorite. Type in a search term, and the main term is the center of your search "galaxy". Click on any of the planets, and you get this:
Click on the planet and it twirls around; your results are enlarged as you select them. Way cool!
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