A new visual metasearch engine, PageBull.com, offers search results in the form of images instead of text. PageBull compiles screenshots of all the pages which have the search keywords and presents them to the user, while it abandons text altogether. The search engine even highlights the search terms in the screenshots.
The images shown in PageBull shows the search results in a 3 by 4, 2 by 6 or 4 by 3 image grid, depending on the window size of the web browser used. Users can use a drop down menu to customize the image grid, according to their needs. Moreover, users can click on a small info link on the screenshots, which shows the relevant information, related to the page. Also, the + sign on the screenshots will generate a larger image of the relevant page.
PageBull also offers classic text results on demand.
However, PageBull needs a fast broadband Internet connection, with a speed of 1 Mbps or higher (DSL, cable or office network) and JavaScript must be enabled in the users’ computer.
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December 8th, 2006 at 8:26 am
This is crazy. It is pretty cool and all, but I don’t think it will catch on. As bad as we all think text links are, you can display alot more on a page then this, and the results come up much quicker.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
I agree with you apexad, I like text links more either, but its a cool feature
December 13th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
That site is pretty cool. Here is what I got when I searched.
http://www.pagebull.com/?qStart=0&qVisWidth=1264&qIn=bryan%27s+rants&qPvPics=3×4
The first and third are my site :). The only thing I don’t like is how long it takes to compile. It is a nice idea, but I doubt it will go anywhere.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Ow this is cool site, btw you can set pixels right?