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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No Comments » All the small things – what do we pick up when browsing?
Occasionally you’ll come across a person who has an ability to build a rapport with, and be liked by, almost everyone. What makes these people likable? What makes peoples’ personalities infectious? The easy answer is charisma and charm. But there is also a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ about some people. According to William Condon,
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Misguided reward in search
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!
We use the Internet so much that we can second guess it
Imagine you’re sitting down, on the internet, and you search to find out which year a famous actor was born. What does the resulting website look like? It probably looks something like wikipedia or imdb. How about if you’re looking to solve a small, idiosyncratic problem with your car? I am visualizing some sort of
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Google take first step to plug into your brain
Google are set to release head up display ‘augmented reality’ sunglasses. Some are calling them Google goggles. They will cost the same as current smart phones (around $300), and look similar to Oakley thumps. Rather than a conventional browser, they will use a heads up display overlay. Interaction with the glasses will be made with
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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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How did Pinterest grow by 4000% in a year?
Pinterest recently, in a single week, received more visits than the population of Portugal. This is a 40x increase on the same period the year before. Pinterest is a social network that allows users to share things of interest on their virtual ‘pinboards’. By all accounts, Pinterest’s growth hasn’t always been as explosive, with relatively
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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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Google on text vs images
“We realized that for many searches the best answer wasn’t text – it was an image or a set of images” Google Product Manager – Nate Smith (July 2010) Twitter: @Oolone
