Is This the World’s Best Metasearch Site?

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Back in April, I shared a private invite to those of you who were following me on Twitter. Anytime I stumble across new websites, or get invites to pass out for something new, I try to pass them along right away. Even though you may think you have enough websites already, you really need to check this one out.

Viewzi is a new way to search. I know, I know… you are a faithful Google user. But just take a moment to pay attention to this with an open mind. You may just find yourself using Viewzi often.

Viewzi is Metasearch. It will change the way you think about search engines. Viewzi will then ask you how you want to view the data that is found. What types of views are there?

Celebrity Photo View
Web Screenshot View
Simple Text View
Viewzi News View
Video x3 View
Basic Photo View
3D Photo Cloud View
Site Information View
4 Sources View
The Weather View
Album View
MP3 Search View
Everyday Shopping View
Amazon Book View
TechCrunch
Recipe View

Choosing one of the above views will give you different results, culled from different places. For instance, the Video x3 View will give you three strips of videos that match the words you searched for. It pulls in results from places like Veoh and YouTube. The really cool thing is that in those strips, the thumbnails are animated.

Viewzi is amazing when shopping, because it will do the work FOR you. It searches places like eBay and Amazon and brings you only results that really work for you. It will fit your needs better than what Google does.

Viewzi will change the way you view your search results.

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13 Comments

News

July 12th, 2008
at 3:10pm

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July 7th, 2008
at 3:47am

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July 6th, 2008
at 10:45pm

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giovanni gallucci

July 6th, 2008
at 12:17pm

Thank you Chris.

giovanni gallucci, viewzi evangelist
http://viewzi.com
http://twitter.com/giovanni
469.682.6978

DoubleB

July 6th, 2008
at 2:34pm

This does change the way you use your search. Great site thanks Chris. My blog was 6 webshots views in. :D

Justintrumpet21

July 6th, 2008
at 6:33pm

Am I the only one in the world that uses Windows Live Search…. I guess so!? I really like ViewZi and I will probably continue to use it, mostly for video and pictures however.

Outsanity

July 6th, 2008
at 11:46pm

I doubt people will use Viewzi as a verb like they do with Google but, after playing with it during the recording, I would say it’s worth bookmarking. They even have a search addon for FF3.

laxoriginality

July 7th, 2008
at 9:36am

Good research tool. No hierarchy to search results. Aspects I hadn’t considered not on page 17 never to be found.

Rhys

July 9th, 2008
at 5:50pm

no matter how much this search is i’ll probably stay with google for a long time now.

Michael Forian

July 11th, 2008
at 10:57am

Ugh, I hate Viewzi. It didn’t return anything relevant when I searched for something on it. I’m going to have to stick to Google for the next few thousand years ;)

Cheers!

Forian

jack21

July 11th, 2008
at 6:26pm

Viewzi is pretty cool overall, but I think people will still stick with Google for a long time. It’s just a habit for some people or they just like Google.

Benjamin David

July 15th, 2008
at 8:40am

It can be added as a search engine in opera and mozilla firefox