Visual Web Search With Pagebull
Pagebull is a visual search engine that gives you an idea of what pages look like before you visit them. For example, if you search Pagebull for recipes you will see pictures of pages from AllRecipes, the Food Network, Epicurous, Better Homes and Gardens and Meals.com in the search results. Panda Search Engine News explains how Pagebull has abandoned text search results completely by using linked pictures of pages instead of words and hyperlinks.
What makes Pagebull stand apart, though, is that all results are presented as pictures of the search result pages. Yes, that's right, this is not a question of adding small thumbnails to regular search results (that has been done before). Pagebull abandons text alltogether.It is a good thing the text on the pages is not very readable -- otherwise the websites being listed might object to their content being framed by Pagebull. As is stands most web publishers will probably not object to what Pagebull is doing. Pagebull does provide information for webmasters who do not want their site in Pagebull. Pagebull is an interesting search tool that provides a completely new way to search the web.
Pagebull shows the search results in a 3 by 4, 2 by 6 or 4 by 3 image grid, depending on your Internet browser window size. You can use a drop down menu to customize the image grid, if needed.
It is amazing to see how much information is contained in pictures like this. Although it may be hard to read the text present in the images, the lay out, the picture selected and the main headlines immediately give you an impression of what the page is about.
Tags: pagebull | visual-search-engine
Posted on December 11, 2006
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