Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
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Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
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Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#2It wouldn't open links in a new window (FF2, linux); and I could find no way to extract the URL of a found page.
Cool design though. Expectation management: I felt delight at the effect, then disappointment that it didn't animate the it fully (maybe it's my low-power subnotebook though).
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#3The best articles on competing with Google are from Rich Skrenta:
http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/how_to_beat_google_part_1.htm...
http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_...
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#4No one ever seems to give any mention to Viewzi, a Dallas based visual search engine that is pretty awesome from both a design and technical standpoint. http://viewzi.com
Even though Viewzi is still in beta, the overall apathy toward them from the tech crowd seems to point to the conclusion that maybe people don't really want a design oriented search experience.
Regardless, good luck to Viewzi and others who feel called to create a new approach to search, but the bottom-line remains... Branding is key, and Google is one of the most well-known and trusted brands in the world.
In addition, even if you were to come up with some innovative new approach, Google or some random programmer with BOSS could easily implement similar features and render your hard work worthless. (see: Cuil)
Search doesn't need fixed where it isn't broken.
EDIT: I'm also tired of hearing people say that Google has no sense of design when it is one of the most well-designed sites on the web. There is an art to knowing what not to include, and Google does this better than anyone on the web.
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#5No one ever seems to give any mention to Viewzi, a Dallas based visual search engine that is pretty awesome from both a design and technical standpoint. http://viewzi.com Even though Viewzi is still in beta, the overall apathy toward them from the tech crowd seems to point to the conclusion that maybe people don't really want a design oriented search experience. Regardless, good luck to Viewzi and others who feel cal…
Wow, Viewzi is pretty cool, nice design. How did you hear of these guys?
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#6No one ever seems to give any mention to Viewzi, a Dallas based visual search engine that is pretty awesome from both a design and technical standpoint. http://viewzi.com Even though Viewzi is still in beta, the overall apathy toward them from the tech crowd seems to point to the conclusion that maybe people don't really want a design oriented search experience. Regardless, good luck to Viewzi and others who feel cal…
I am not finding Viewzi to be very intuitive. This is not what I expect from a search results page:
http://www.viewzi.com/search/hurricane%20tracking
What am I supposed to do next?
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#7No one ever seems to give any mention to Viewzi, a Dallas based visual search engine that is pretty awesome from both a design and technical standpoint. http://viewzi.com Even though Viewzi is still in beta, the overall apathy toward them from the tech crowd seems to point to the conclusion that maybe people don't really want a design oriented search experience. Regardless, good luck to Viewzi and others who feel cal…
I really do like them. This sort of timeline search view was the first I've been excited about for years:
http://www.viewzi.com/search/cronotron/ycombinator
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#8No one ever seems to give any mention to Viewzi, a Dallas based visual search engine that is pretty awesome from both a design and technical standpoint. http://viewzi.com Even though Viewzi is still in beta, the overall apathy toward them from the tech crowd seems to point to the conclusion that maybe people don't really want a design oriented search experience. Regardless, good luck to Viewzi and others who feel cal…
I am not finding Viewzi to be very intuitive. This is not what I expect from a search results page: http://www.viewzi.com/search/hurricane%20tracking What am I supposed to do next?
You choose a 'view' depending on where you want the results pulled from and how you want it to be displayed.
I agree, it isn't very intuitive, but only because it's different than Google, which is what we have been used to for so long.
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#9No one ever seems to give any mention to Viewzi, a Dallas based visual search engine that is pretty awesome from both a design and technical standpoint. http://viewzi.com Even though Viewzi is still in beta, the overall apathy toward them from the tech crowd seems to point to the conclusion that maybe people don't really want a design oriented search experience. Regardless, good luck to Viewzi and others who feel cal…
Wow, Viewzi is pretty cool, nice design. How did you hear of these guys?
I was looking for an internship in Dallas and came across them. I was also confused as to why I had not heard of them since I follow tech news religiously and go to school in Dallas at SMU.
Apparently, their CEO sold his first company to Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com before it was sold to Yahoo. If they were based in Silicon Valley, I bet everyone would have already known about them, and the hype would be through the roof. I was really boggled by the way all the tech journalists overlooked Viewzi during that whole Cuil debacle.
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#10This UI design is critical to search engine is just nonsense. All that matters in search engine is the result. You can have the crappiest interface and the best result, you will become billionaire. Simple as that. Design in search engine doesn't matter at all. All that matters is the result.