Yoozila: Google's Hot Cousin?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Siti Nurhaliza said 11:49PM on 7-08-2008
Hehehe. Check out AlternateGoogle.com ( http://www.AlternateGoogle.com ) . That seems more interesting!
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Jasper said 12:42PM on 7-09-2008
Good start - it doesn't work for me!
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Mark said 3:42PM on 7-09-2008
The website seems down :)
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Andriy said 5:03AM on 7-10-2008
yeah, site down..
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