Find cool images with oSkope

by Brad Linder Sep 16th 2007

oSkope is a visual search engine that lets you find images and videos from Flickr, Amazon, and YouTube. But that description doesn't really do the site justice.

You choose the site you want to search, enter a search term, and oSkope pulls up a list of images. You can fit more or fewer images on the screen by using the scrollbar on the right to zoom in or out. You can arrange images in a grid, a messy pile, a list with image data, or as a graph showing information like pricing or date uploaded.

Clicking on an image brings up a larger image and the ability to click through to the original source. If you're searching Amazon, you'll also see the item's price. And if you're searching YouTube, you'll have the option to play a video. Although the site allows you to choose eBay as your search engine, you won't find any items if you search eBay. Hopefully this feature is coming soon.

The whole thing is written in Flash, so there's no waiting for page loads. But there's also no back button, which can be a bit annoying at times.

[via Mashable]

Tags: amazon, eBay, flickr, images, oSkope, youtube

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mustra said 12:04PM on 9-16-2007

Very cool site, kind of heavy to load (flash...I know), but I liked the interface, It was well designed, although maybe sometimes a little confusing, can we consider this website web 2.0 ? or that is only for social internet experiences ?

Ill probably post an article about this to at my blog, http://ultraside.blogspot.com

Thanks

kiran said 12:26AM on 10-04-2007

hai......................

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