Comments on: Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/ Internet news and commentary Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dallas Search Startup Viewzi Gets Press! : Texas Startup Blog http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-842901 Dallas Search Startup Viewzi Gets Press! : Texas Startup Blog Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:33:34 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-842901 [...] This evening Viewzi was profiled on Channel 11 News. Great press (I will post YouTube link when it gets uploaded). Here is my previous coverage: Profy, ReadWriteWeb and The Inquisitr are talking about Viewzi’s beta launch. Profy giving the visual search engine high praise by suggesting, “Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search“. I have spent a little time playing with the search engine and it looks very sexy. I wrote about the company back in March when I compared it to SearchMe: [...] [...] This evening Viewzi was profiled on Channel 11 News. Great press (I will post YouTube link when it gets uploaded). Here is my previous coverage: Profy, ReadWriteWeb and The Inquisitr are talking about Viewzi’s beta launch. Profy giving the visual search engine high praise by suggesting, “Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search“. I have spent a little time playing with the search engine and it looks very sexy. I wrote about the company back in March when I compared it to SearchMe: [...]

]]> By: Dallas-based Viewzi Gets Attention! : Texas Startup Blog http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-615011 Dallas-based Viewzi Gets Attention! : Texas Startup Blog Wed, 21 May 2008 18:59:27 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-615011 [...] Profy, ReadWriteWeb and The Inquisitr are talking about Viewzi’s beta launch.  Profy giving the visual search engine high praise by suggesting, “Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search“.  I have spent a little time playing with the search engine and it looks very sexy.  I wrote about the company back in March when I compared it to SearchMe: Local entrepreneur Brandon Cotter’s newest startup, Viewzi, has been in the works for more than a year and is currently in private alpha.  I caught up with Brandon and the Viewzi team at Barcamp/SXSW and he explained that Viewzi should be released in public beta in April.  Brandon and I go way back (I was returning $15MM to investors when my account came up $100,000 short; he loaned me the $100,000 on a handshake until I could re-capitalize my startup). [...] [...] Profy, ReadWriteWeb and The Inquisitr are talking about Viewzi’s beta launch.  Profy giving the visual search engine high praise by suggesting, “Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search“.  I have spent a little time playing with the search engine and it looks very sexy.  I wrote about the company back in March when I compared it to SearchMe: Local entrepreneur Brandon Cotter’s newest startup, Viewzi, has been in the works for more than a year and is currently in private alpha.  I caught up with Brandon and the Viewzi team at Barcamp/SXSW and he explained that Viewzi should be released in public beta in April.  Brandon and I go way back (I was returning $15MM to investors when my account came up $100,000 short; he loaned me the $100,000 on a handshake until I could re-capitalize my startup). [...]

]]> By: Technology and Gadgets Review » Blog Archive » Viewzi Takes Visual Search To Another Level http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-589211 Technology and Gadgets Review » Blog Archive » Viewzi Takes Visual Search To Another Level Mon, 12 May 2008 16:36:02 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-589211 [...] According to Profy.com, the Viewzi search engine recently launched into private beta for the Web 2.0 Expo. Viewzi does a fantastic job of catering to various things that people search for by providing users with over 10 unique ways to view search results. The service loads in browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and IE 7 and requires Flash 9. [...] [...] According to Profy.com, the Viewzi search engine recently launched into private beta for the Web 2.0 Expo. Viewzi does a fantastic job of catering to various things that people search for by providing users with over 10 unique ways to view search results. The service loads in browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and IE 7 and requires Flash 9. [...]

]]> By: Viewzi Makes Visual Search Work - Rev2.org http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-588251 Viewzi Makes Visual Search Work - Rev2.org Mon, 12 May 2008 10:07:24 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-588251 [...] Visual search engines, or rather, the ones that make a claim to provide alternative visual ways to search, have been on the rise lately — and rightly so, with the advent of Flash and AJAX. A few days ago we reviewed SearchMe, which featured an Apple-like ‘Coverflow’ view of its internally-crawled search results. Viewzi is the latest play in the area and is being touted in the blogosphere as the first to get it right. [...] [...] Visual search engines, or rather, the ones that make a claim to provide alternative visual ways to search, have been on the rise lately — and rightly so, with the advent of Flash and AJAX. A few days ago we reviewed SearchMe, which featured an Apple-like ‘Coverflow’ view of its internally-crawled search results. Viewzi is the latest play in the area and is being touted in the blogosphere as the first to get it right. [...]

]]> By: Viewzi: Visual Search Nearly Done Right http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583711 Viewzi: Visual Search Nearly Done Right Sun, 11 May 2008 03:26:01 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583711 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583671 Cyndy Aleo-Carreira Sun, 11 May 2008 02:55:05 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583671 @Giovanni Thank you for the invites! @Mk SearchMe is similar only in that it uses screenshots. It has more features (you can search within a page, for example), but only allows you the one possible view. My biggest problem with these visual search engines has been that they don't give you options for how you want to view results; SearchMe is a great example. The screenshots are HUGE but if you are searching for a person, for example, and their top result in SearchMe is something completely inappropriate and you are at work or have kids around, it's hard to hide it. If you aren't sure what you are going to get, with Viewzi you can switch to straight text or use the 4 Sources view, which has much smaller screenshots. I don't like surprises, can you tell? ;) @Giovanni Thank you for the invites!

@Mk SearchMe is similar only in that it uses screenshots. It has more features (you can search within a page, for example), but only allows you the one possible view. My biggest problem with these visual search engines has been that they don’t give you options for how you want to view results; SearchMe is a great example. The screenshots are HUGE but if you are searching for a person, for example, and their top result in SearchMe is something completely inappropriate and you are at work or have kids around, it’s hard to hide it. If you aren’t sure what you are going to get, with Viewzi you can switch to straight text or use the 4 Sources view, which has much smaller screenshots. I don’t like surprises, can you tell? ;)

]]> By: MkChronos http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583661 MkChronos Sun, 11 May 2008 02:48:15 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583661 Nice write up. At first glance it seems a lot like the SearchMe site that I checked out from Techcrunch's post a while back (which I believe is also in beta), but I did like what they had put together. Would be interesting to see both of these side by side to compare (interesting approach with the multiple views). I'll go try to get a peek at the beta thanks to giovanni's offer for the referral code. That is if there's still any left by the time I get there ;) Nice write up. At first glance it seems a lot like the SearchMe site that I checked out from Techcrunch’s post a while back (which I believe is also in beta), but I did like what they had put together. Would be interesting to see both of these side by side to compare (interesting approach with the multiple views). I’ll go try to get a peek at the beta thanks to giovanni’s offer for the referral code. That is if there’s still any left by the time I get there ;)

]]> By: giovanni gallucci http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583611 giovanni gallucci Sun, 11 May 2008 02:16:58 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/10/viewzi-visual-search-review/#comment-583611 Cyndy, Thanks for having a peek. We're glad you like it! :-) We're still in private beta, but your readers can get in to have a look by using "profy" as their referral code. This is good for the first few hundred through the door. Of course, with this being a beta, we'd like to hear about their experience so we can make the product even better. Have a good one! -giovanni Cyndy,

Thanks for having a peek. We’re glad you like it! :-) We’re still in private beta, but your readers can get in to have a look by using “profy” as their referral code. This is good for the first few hundred through the door. Of course, with this being a beta, we’d like to hear about their experience so we can make the product even better.

Have a good one!

-giovanni

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