oSkope - Highly Intuitive Visual Search Engine

September 16, 2007 – 11:03 pm

If you are looking for a new way to search things from the web, you may want to include oSkope. While it is still in beta, the way it handled a search request is fresh in every way. Currently, oSkope only lets you search four services which are Youtube, Flickr, Amazon, and Ebay. The different between oSkope and other normal search engine is that it displays search results in the form of clickable picture thumbnails that you can click to get more info, or click on the picture have a bigger view of your search results.

For a quick glance at oSkope, here is what it returns when I search for “William Hung” related videos from Youtube:

All resulting search results thumbnails can be resized based on your preferences and can also be displayed in various views - Grid, Stack, Pile, List or Graph. The Graph view is most interesting because thumbnails are displayed according to posted date or rankings.

how-viewing-works-in-oskope

Another interesting thing is that you can dig deeper into search results, using categories, thus limiting your search results to improve accuracy, just like the one you can do with Google Advanced Search. If you register with oSkope, you can even save your search results inside “My Folder“.

my-folder-in-oskope

I am quite impressed with my first usage of oSkope but it also has a major flaw with Mozilla Firefox. I can’t get the “View” toolbar to appear in my Firefox browser but it works perfectly in IE. Still, I was highly impressed with the intuitive nature of oSkope, it was really a well designed visual search engine. Give it a try today and I think you will agree with me.

Tags: search engine, oskope, visual search