Technology Nerd » search service http://tnerd.com (Technology, as it happens, When it happens!) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 GazoPa: Image search redefined http://tnerd.com/2008/09/14/gazopa-similar-image-search-engine/ http://tnerd.com/2008/09/14/gazopa-similar-image-search-engine/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:33:36 +0000 Vivek http://tnerd.com/?p=1645 How the world of web and blogsphere would have looked without images? Really it’s very difficult to imagine a world with out pictures and images. The saying “pictures speak louder than words” holds absolutely perfect for bloggers. But for images in their articles, bloggers would be handicap. It’s imperative for me to include images in the posts I write and I cannot think of doing a post without images. What are the advantages (and trust me there are only advantages)?

  1. your blog looks much more beautiful when you have images in it.
  2. you can control the flow of what you are trying to say beautifully well with images.
  3. You can have posts only with images and they add a different flavor to the post.
  4. For tutorial sites it’s imperative to use images else the purpose of the post is defeated.

I have emphasized enough on why websites and especially bloggers have to use images in their daily workflow. Let’s take a look at a service that’ll make your search for images an easier one. The service
is
called as
Gazopa and
is an
image search engine. The service is called as Gazopa and is an . No doubt there are wonderful services like Flickr and DeviantArt, but has a different flavor to the way it caters to your need of image search.

Remember sometime back we wrote about a service called as TinEye. is similar to and help you using image. searches for exactly same images whereas ’s searches for all the similar and related images which need not have to same. Let’s look at the features it promises to offer:

  1. is a service on the web in private beta by Hitachi.
  2. Users can from the web based on user
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    We all know that almost everyday a new web 2.0 company/site sprouts on the Internet farm, and the service that I am going to bring to your kind attention is one of them namely Viewzi. We all or should I say at least I am addicted to using Google as my , especially when I know the power of using it with operators and query modifiers and don’t pay much attention to new . Not that I don’t write about them or stay updated with them, (Abbas wrote about Cuil.com and I did a post on on TinEye not a long time back) but the very fact that I hardly use many of them on a regular basis proves my slavery to Google.

    Viewzi claims to be

    new and highly visual way to search that brings all your favorite stuff together in one place. Oh, and it’s bolder, richer, and more fun.

    Let’s quickly look at various features that this very promising has to offer. The home page is much of delight to the eyes and is very basic with just one single search box and small image to the video site offered by the same service. Once you search for something it gives you 17 small flash based screenshots and moving film strip like to search for that term under various categories like album, shopping, weather and so on . This is quite good features except for the fact that it ain’t smart. It’s not smart because it doesn’t decide categories based on the search query. Let’s say I search for viagra, it still gave me the category for recipe and weather which is quite irrelevant. However, there were no results under those categories and rightly so. But these categories could have been excluded. Following is how the resultant search page looks like:

    Good thing is that the most relevant category is the first in the filmstrip. Try searching for some celebrity and you’ll get celebrity photo view as the first category and as the service boasts about the effects are quite visual in a good way! I tried signing up for the service a few days back and haven’t heard from them for an invite. I hope you’ll enjoy playing with it.

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