Hi, We’ve now got a mobile version of our visual search engine at m.oolone.com We’d love to hear what you think on feedback@oolone.com, especially how it looks on different devices.. Thanks Oolone.com
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New interface – 6 results per page, not 4
Hi, We just changed the results page on our visual search engine to use 6 previews per page rather than 4. Hopefully this will make it easier to find what you’re looking for. As normal, each preview can be enlarged for a better view. Love to hear what you think – feedback@oolone.com Thanks!
Why did Search Me fail? They had too much money.
Search me inc. was a visual search engine, similar to ours (Oolone.com) that launched in 2008. After spending millions of dollars (it launched with $25m backing from Sequoia Capital), the engine went offline in 2009. In fact, over 3 months in 2009 the engine lost 1.2 million visitors. As far as I can see, there
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Opinions on Search cube, Search me, Redz and Google preview
A few people have asked for our opinion on ‘Search cube’, a search engine, like ours, that displays search results in a visual manner. We were aware of services such as ‘Search cube’ and the now defunct ‘Search Me’ before building Oolone, and while we enjoy their services, we felt that they don’t utilize the
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Oolone – A Quick Intro
Hello! Welcome to the Oolone blog, where we will keep you up-to-date with happenings at the office. Even when it’s sunny outside. As you have hopefully gathered, Oolone is a visual search engine; we use visual technology to bring you interactive pictures or images of the websites you may – or may not – want
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How to steal a piece of bread from Google’s table
“Google is a huge brand. From where I sit, it’s their game to lose.” Safa Rashtchy – Piper Jaffray securities firm Market leaders have a problem. They’re at the front of the pack, so they must choose the correct path down which to lead others. If they choose one path and their customers choose
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Google wastes your marketing budget
They look wrong, don’t they? To engrain these into your (collective) brain cost these companies countless millions of their hard-earned revenue. From logo design to colour and font choices, a long line of decisions – expensive in time and capital – have been made with the common end goal of brand recognition and
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Google and Yahoo are afraid of change
“Visual appearance is one of the most effective variables for quickly differentiating one application from another” – Bob Baxley (Yahoo! Search) Google dipped their toe in the visual search water in 2011 by providing small previews of sites in their search results. If you know where (and have the time) to click on each result
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Oolone’s view of Summly
This is the problem with the internet today; more and more social media producing more and more content. To retain the same evaluative power we either need more search engine capability (limited in it’s development of new factors in algorithms) or more evaluative capability (limited by our experience, education etc). To solve this seemingly
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