Viewzi Search Is Live!
Let the Ridiculously Flexible Searching Begin
The first public version of Viewzi search is available today. (cheers)
Starting at around 7:00 am, Viewzi was available via a special link from TechCrunch and then 12 hours later, at 7pm tonight, you will be able to get in via the front-door.
Lots of buzz today--and about 10,000 searches in the first few hours.
A ton of work has gone into making today a reality. From the “napkin” that started it all back in December of 2006 when Chris and I started talking about ways to change the search experience....until last night at 2am when things were officially “done”, life has been a roller coaster.
What’s next?
When talking about Viewzi and what’s next (yes, the bar is high), we often feel that we have just now only reached base camp (referring to base camp at Mt Everest, which my friend Jeff Turner reminds me is a really big accomplishment).
How high are the camps?
Base Camp - 17,500ft (5,400m)
Camp 1 - 20,000ft (6,100m)
Camp 2 - 21,300ft (6,500m)
Camp 3 - 24,000ft (7,400m)
Camp 4 - 26,000ft (8,000m)
Summit - 29,035ft (8,850)
Viewzi is all about changing the experience of search. A big chunk of that launched today. But in the coming weeks and months, you can expect to see a lot more. Each week, at least one new view will launch--sometimes a few at once. I am pretty excited about our first movie view, “BC’s Movie View” that pulls from a few of the best movie sites including Metacritic (yes, I had a hand in building this one).
We also are working on the Power Viewzer view (a view for those of us who always have more than 5 tabs open at once), and a killer blog search view.
Off to NYC this week to show this thing off....
Stay tuned.
Comments
Jeff said:
Really nice work !
French user of Viewzi, I think i can forget my google startpage thanks to your work…
With Viewzi, searching on web become wonderful
!
Jeff.
Posted on June 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Aaron said:
That’s encouraging Jeff, thanks for the love!
Posted on June 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM
JC said:
Nice Blog.
Very informative.
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Posted on June 14, 2008 at 1:07 AM
Stair lift said:
perhaps it is something beyond my imagination. I was impressed by snap and now i have another cool thing on this planet in form of viewzi. I am wondering to see too many preview styles, that is a cool thing.
Posted on July 05, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Martin said:
Very cool effort and first of its type. I wish that it should be bloomed and flourish like a charm. It shows your affection and efforts towards your passion.
Posted on July 07, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Fredrick said:
It is the wonderful experience. I hope that this little baby is going to be a 80 feet Gorilla very soon. Congrats on all your hard work.
Posted on July 16, 2008 at 7:53 AM