If you are having a hard time learning a word, than GraphWords is a website you might want to check out. It allows you to examine a meaning visually. Instead of reading a dictionary and simply defining a word, GraphWords shows you the word visually. It shows lines connecting the word with other words of [...]
If you are tired of cluttered text-only search engines, SocialVents will be a refreshing change. SocialVents is a event search engine that lets you search for events around the world and displays results visually on Google Maps. You can search by entering a specific location and date and even restrict your results by categories such [...]
If you keep track of world news, you would know that the hottest story at the moment is the massive release of data from US embassy diplomatic cables that’s planned by the website Wikileaks today (by the time this post is published, they would have released the docs.) Some top newspapers around the world will [...]
Google has finally stepped into e-commerce with the launch of a visual search based fashion portal, Boutiques.com. Several mini Boutiques (think collections) let you browse through everything ranging from designer clothing, to bags, shoes and accessories. You can easily love/hate, save or share any item. Bringing your mouse over an item gives you a detailed [...]
Reading and making sense of the words used in dictionaries is an art that not many people have mastered. Regular paper dictionaries usually do a very bad job of explaining synonyms and the relations between words and their meanings. This is where Snappy Words comes in. Snappy Words is an online dictionary that displays words [...]
When searching for products on online shopping stores, you often have to fight through a clutter of text to reach the desired item. But mostly you ignore the text and focus on the images to get to your product’s page. Spotli is a visual product search engine that provides you with an image-only product searching [...]
While writing a report or research-type paper on a famous personality you often need images of their faces. But on the web when you search for somebody’s pictures, every type of picture shows up including group photographs. To filter these pictures and view only the face ones, pay a visit to iFaceSearch. iFaceSearch is a [...]
Spezify is an interesting search engine that lets you visualize search results. It mixes all kinds of media such as text, videos, tweets, images from various sources (Yahoo, MSN, Amazon, Twitter, Ebay… etc ) and displays on a grid interface where you can scroll both vertically and horizontally to view them. The application provides a [...]
Facesaerch is a Google Image based face search engine which pulls only pictures with people’s faces. It’s very useful if you want to search for people faces within a certain context such as ”Funny”, “Aghanistan war”, “Barack Obama inauguration” etc., and anything else you can think of. Features: Face search on Google Images. Easily navigate through [...]
Similar-Images is an experimental similar image search service provided by Google which lets you search for images using other pictures instead of keywords. It’s a useful feature, since searching with keywords doesn’t always get you the image results you expected. For example, the image search for keyword “Paris” will return images of Paris, the capital [...]