When searching for Web sites, we’re accustomed to seeing textual search results and having a fairly small amount of flexibility with them. When searching for media, the process gets a little more visual, but the flexibility to organize and browse through the results in still rather limited most of the time. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to interact with pictures, movies, and other items as if they were actually objects instead of just items set in digital concrete on a screen? A service called oSkope enables you to do just that through its visual browser.
Amazon, eBay, Flickr, and YouTube are the services that are supported here, and search any one of them through oSkope to see the results for yourself. As you’ll see, the requested items are dumped onto the screen in a way that enables you to zoom in and out, drag them around, click on them for more details, and organize them in a variety of specified ways. Add what you like to your personal folder so that you can quickly retrieve it in the future. It would be nice to see this method of visual searching catch on as an additional search option in a bigger way than it already has.
by Brandon Watts on September 24, 2007
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