Yoozila: Google's Hot Cousin?

by Lee Mathews Jul 8th 2008

Ok, ok, we know that when something is as powerful and useful as Google that looks shouldn't matter, but come on. Would it really be too much to ask for her to doll herself up a little? Just a little. Throw us a bone!

Fortunately, Yoozila has arrived on the scene, all AJAXed up, and shiny web 2.0 graphics to top it all off.

The results page can be quickly - and usefully - customized. Turn thumbnails on or off, filter your results by region, language, file type and license type (though it doesn't work that well on some searches yet), and of course you can search within your results.

The thumbnails can be incredibly useful; they're a good way to spot scam sites before you get suckered in to visiting or give you a visual reminder of sites you're visited before.

It's built on Google code, so you'll get the same web, image, blog, news, and other results either way. Yoozila's done an excellent job updating the old, saggy Google interface.

Tags: google, search, web 2.0, Web2.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neonez said 6:16PM on 7-08-2008

Yahoo + Google + Mozilla = yoozila?

Maybe combining the names of companies that you admire isn't the best idea in the world.

lakiolen said 6:50PM on 7-08-2008

You think that Google doesn't care about its looks? Google cares more than your average web site.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-comes-next-in-this-series-13-33-53.html

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/04/see-you-at-chi.html

Google is minimalistic for many very very good reasons.

Rid said 9:51PM on 7-08-2008

The below link is honestly the best explanation I have ever seen as to why Google is now the giant it is, while Yahoo shareholders can only hope to be bought out.

http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/nonflickr/05_yahoogle.html

If I want intrusive pop-up page previews and a suggestion bar to fill half my screen, I use Ask. If I want as many ads as I get results and a page of a whole lot of junk I don't want, I have Yahoo. If I need a giant suggestion box and previews that tell little except the choice of background color a page uses, I now have Yoozila.

If I need to do a web search, I'll keep using Google.

Lee Mathews said 6:50PM on 7-08-2008

It's not so much that, but they care about being clean, not pretty.

Siti Nurhaliza said 11:49PM on 7-08-2008

Hehehe. Check out AlternateGoogle.com ( http://www.AlternateGoogle.com ) . That seems more interesting!

Jasper said 12:42PM on 7-09-2008

Good start - it doesn't work for me!

Mark said 3:42PM on 7-09-2008

The website seems down :)

Andriy said 5:03AM on 7-10-2008

yeah, site down..

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