When does tech become accepted normality? How new does something have to be to be considered ‘tech’? It’s a philosophical point, but also one that illustrates this ongoing concept that technology should be invisible, allowing it’s users to get on with whatever they were wanting to do. It is somewhat ironic, then, that the act
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No Comments » Proprietors of search, Yahoo, have produced a visual web search browser plug-in. ‘Axis’ is a product whose installation allows visual previews of websites upon searching the web, rather like Oolone. A small search bar at the bottom of your browser allows entry of your search term, which is followed by a series of screenshots appearing
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One question we have been asked a few times since the launch of Oolone is how we explain the huge success of Amazon’s Kindle, given our penchant for all things visual and non-text based. And the answer is relatively simple. The Kindle is a great device! It is slick, slim and portable, it has a
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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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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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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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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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