OSkope.com - Visual Search Engine

If you're performing a search online for something other than a document or webpage, sometimes you may feel limited by and burdened with typical search engines. What's the use in running a search for a video clip on the internet and getting a series of links that you may or may not find helpful until you click on them and visit the actual page. Well, now you don't have to do that. oSkope is a visual search engine which, instead of displaying results composed of verbal links, shows you images of what you've searched for. For example, say you're looking for a book on Amazon. Seeing images of the book's cover would be a lot more useful than just seeing a list of titles, right? That's precisely what oSkope does; enter in one of the four sites that oSkope uses (currently Amazon, Flickr, eBay, and YouTube), get more specific with some keywords, and oSkope produces a visual list of results. To select a result, simply click on the image; it will expand and if you confirm that that's what you were searching for, oSkope will take you directly to its source.

"oSkope is a visual browser that lets you
search and organize items from different
web services like Amazon, Ebay, YouTube
or Flickr in an intuitive way."

oSkope is blazing the trail for a totally new way of searching; by images instead of by text. In many ways, this is a more effective method of searching, especially when you need to have access to a visual to determine if a given result is actually relevant to your search term. oSkope could definitely save time when searching for items for purchase or anything that has to do with visuals instead of text (YouTube and Flickr). The results are neatly and appealingly arranged; and you can blow them up one by one to check them out up close and personal.

When will oSkope expand to include more image and video sites? It would also be great if it could somehow function for people searches, especially when searching for someone with a generic name (think: Googling "John Brown").