A New View for Viewzi

My favorite “alternative” search engine, Viewzi, has debuted a new feature that merits another visit.

By my tastes, Viewzi is the best tool on the market to combine search and data visualization–two of the most important functionalities on the web. When you conduct a search using Viewzi, you can choose among 18 [!] different ways to view your search, from a visual “album gallery” of sites to the surprising, and surprisingly functional, Google Timeline view, shows results lined up in the order Brother Google first discovered them.

Viewzi tends to be more impressive as a technology platform, a sort of innovation farm for dataviz geeks.   But its new view, Power Grid, takes an important step toward usability, if not quite practicality. It lets you choose either to “see” or “read” results, and includes a handy bookmarking feature.

The great thing here is that you can see the images of the sites that have the results, or mouse over them to flip to a text view. In the image above, the site on the far left is exposed as text; the others are site images.

As you peruse sites, you can whittle by marking them to save or dump. You can return to your starred sites and choose Open All to display each selected site a in separate tab.

The Viewzi platform continues to mature. It opens your eyes to new ways to search. It is fun to explore.

But tomorrow, inevitably, you’re back spending time with Brother Google.