Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App(techcrunch.com) |
Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App(techcrunch.com) |
Izic = Issac.
And,
Nuuton = Newton.
Are you guys stalking me?I'm sure you are not. And this is something entirely different from what I'm doing. But it would be neat because Ive never had a stalker. ;)
Still, let me tell you that visual search is a trend that everyone should be paying attention to. Touch devices are changing the way people browse the web. Text links are being seen as less favorable than image links. Why? I think the connection comes from the icons used to launch apps. People now sort of see link images as icons instead of just images thta link somewhere. So, in the future, you might see search becoming more about a lost of website icons with a small description under it (if any).
Congrats to Chuck, Greg, and the gang at Blekko. This is very nice. You make me want to learn Perl and apply.
But I guess you guys were going for "I seek"? (as in "ICQ" which was short for "I seek you"?)
Anyway, congrats! Looks great!
* blekko.com is "10 blue links", desktop search, slashtags used to eliminate webspam
* rockzi.com is [/category /date], date sorted results for a category (slashtag), with an image-heavy UI, social voting, and user submissions
* izik.com is search for the tablet, image-heavy UI for ALL of the categories (slashtags) that we think may be relevant for a search.
All 3 build on the same underlying crawl and index dataset. Rockzi and izik share UI elements.