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Galaxy It: Search outside, or rather inside the box
Galaxy It certainly fits the bill. While most search engines plot your results in a list that runs from the top of the page to the bottom, Galaxy It arranges results in a series of boxes. At the center of the screen is a box showing your current search term. It' surrounded by text, images, or videos representing pages that match your search query.
In classic mode, you can click on any box to visit the corresponding page. Or if you want to refine your search, you can click the top of a result box and drag it to the center to start a new search. The problem is that the new search term might not have as much in common with your original request as you think. For example, when we searched for "Eee PC," one of the initial results was "Eee PC reviews." When dragged that box to the center, our new search turned out to be just "reviews," so we wound up with reviews for a ton of unrelated products.
You can also conduct searches using the "organized" mode. In this mode, your initial search doesn't bring up related web sites right away. Rather, it brings up related search terms, making it easier to narrow down your search. When you zoom out to show more than the original 9 boxes you'll start to see links to web sites that match your search terms.
Right now Galaxy It is more of a cool idea than a workable search engine. It's slow, not always accurate, and doesn't look like it's going to draw us away from Google anytime soon. But Galaxy It is also still in the early beta stages, so we're not going to write it off just yet.
[via gHacks]
Right now Galaxy It is more of a cool idea than a workable search engine. It's slow, not always accurate, and doesn't look like it's going to draw us away from Google anytime soon. But Galaxy It is also still in the early beta stages, so we're not going to write it off just yet.
[via gHacks]
