Viewzi
and Quintura Visual Search - A New Way To Experience Search
By John Alexander
One of our SEO Workshop
Graduates recently wrote to me about some Visual Search
Engines which I thought I would in turn, share with you.
Many thanks to SEO Alumni, Paul Rasmussen for sharing these
suggestions.
What is a Visual Search Engine?
A visual search engine is an search engine that gives you a
way to explore search results "visually" and
usually has some means of exploring that visual data in
different ways or different types of views.
Watch this short video of the Visual
Search Engine Viewzi.
As Paul in his note to me pointed out, "Viewzi is quite
an amazing resource because it gives you a view or "concepts
in images" etc together with a range of other
stuff. Because of this new way of looking at your search
results you have a substantially increased number of options
open to you when researching a topic."
If you have studied our stance on performing very thorough
research for use in your optimization and search engine
marketing work, then you'll know that it's great to have a
variety ways to view data.
We've talked in detail about tools such as Wordtracker
and Keyword
Discovery which each have their own solid
strengths.
But you may find that a tool such as Viewzi is also quite
useful for expanding your thinking laterally and catching
other related options that you may have otherwise
missed.
You can give Viewzi a spin here and see what you think.
Visit the Visual Search
Engine Viewzi at http://www.Viewzi.com
Another
Visual Search Engine worth checking out is Quintura
Quintura is a
Visual Search Engine that works with a word cloud.
The Quintura cloud or visual map shows the context of your
query identifying those words and word combinations that are
most closely connected with your search query.
Visualization of your query context is only portion of the
value of mapping.
After your query is processed, the map is filled with
words.
You can examine them and how they are related in detail.
The words shown in red are query words. Other words make up
the context of the query. The mapped words are connected
with the query words most closely.
Visual Search
Engines are very useful visual search tools to both
searchers (those who want to search more effectively.)
But they also may be quite valuable to those of us who are
researchers and who want view results and manage search
results in a little different way.
The way I would encourage you to try them out, is with
respect to searching out behaviors and semantic
relationships between words and phrases that your customers
may be using for very specific topics. What part of
the picture will you discover that you may have missed
otherwise? One of the best ways to confirm what you find is
to check it with a variety of methods or a variety of
tools.
I think there is definitely a place for Visual Search
Engines in the Lateral Thinker's tool box.
Thanks again to Paul
Rasmussen for taking time
to write and share these resources.
Check out our list of Next SEO Skills Training Dates and
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About John Alexander
John Alexander is Co-director of Training at Search
Engine Workshops offering live, SEO Workshops with his
partner SEO educator Robin Nobles, author of the very first
comprehensive online search engine marketing courses. John is author of an
e-book called Wordtracker
Magic and has
taught SEO skills to people from 87 different countries world
wide. John is also Director of Search
Engine Academy with localized Search Engine Academy
training centers where the Complete SEO Mastery Workshop and 6
Month Mentoring program is taught locally to business
owners and individuals in
communities across North America and
Internationally in Asia.
