Viewzi Offers New Look at Visual Search - Choosing a Different View
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What if you're not happy with the view you chose? That's easy to remedy; simply go to the strip at the top and click on the view you want. Viewzi helps you out here by giving you a larger image of whichever view you hover over, and brightening the colors for that view (you'll notice that ribbon of views at the top in the last screen shot showed muted hues for the ribbon of views to avoid distracting you from what you're doing).
Since I'm feeling a little sentimental about those blue links, I decided to change to the text view, which searches Google and Yahoo, and gives the Alexa traffic ranking of the site. Though you might not be able to tell from the screen shot, this is a great view to use if you've mislaid your glasses.
You can't tell how awesome this particular view is from just the screen shot. You get a quick sentence from the site, the Alexa traffic ranking, where Viewzi found the site (Google, Yahoo, or both), and the thumbnail on the left. Try hovering over those thumbnails, and sure enough, Viewzi shows you a larger view. Sometimes this works fairly well, and gives you a great view of the website (and a good idea as to whether it's worth clicking through). Other times it doesn't, but that's not really Viewzi's fault; some sites just don't shrink well.
It's fortunate that Viewzi made it easy to change views, because not every view will yield results for every query. For example, if we take my original query and put it into the Amazon Book View, we get distinctly unsatisfying results:
I've shown you just three of the sixteen views that Viewzi offers. In the next part, I'll show you some of the other views and what they can turn up for you. I'll also provide more information on Viewzi's plans, and some speculation about Viewzi's future. See you then!
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