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For years now when ever you wanted to scouter the internet for some bit of information you headed right away to a search engine like google.com or yahoo.com or what ever rocks your boat. Well any of those search engines are… well lets say to much tech and simple. They show results in a scientific fashion on a simple interface. Some would argue that simple is better, and i would agree with them.

But if you want to spice up your searches you might be interesting in heading out for viewzi.com.

viewzi.com witch is still in beta state gives you a new view on search results, a more visual one, making the user experience more personal. Not only this but viewzi.com aggregates data from several locations and this can improve your search results, plus it can search in severals ways: web searches, picture searches, video searches and a few others that i will let you discover.

How is Viewzi Different?

It’s all about Views
We think there are better ways to present information than in a simple list. We start with specific topics or search terms and ask: “Is there a better way to present this data?” The result? Dozens of new, unique ‘views’, or ways to look at information, each custom-tailored for that content. It’s the right data, presented in the right way.

It’s Refined
Some views are more utilitarian and pull from broad sources like Google or Yahoo!, while others can be tailored for a specific topic like world news, celebrity gossip, or gadgets. This means your results are right for your search. No more sifting through millions of results.

It’s Smart
Our View Picker helps connect you with just the right Views. We do the work of finding the best places and sources and brings those together for you. One search bar for hundreds of sources. It’s like having thousands of search engines in one search bar.

It’s Fun
It’s just more fun to use Viewzi. So fun that we’ve been called, ‘The iPhone of search.” Each time you search for something you can try a different View. Our views are hand crafted by some of the best designers and experts across the globe, each one of them passionate about making search exciting and fun for you.

What is your thought on this new social search website ? Feel free to comment away.

Well i hope you enjoy it and i will leave you with a video review from Chris Pirillo.

For a lot of forms there is a need to display a text as a default one in the inputs. But it is to nice that the users has to delete that text before entering his own, but you don't really want to give up on the predefined / default text since it sometimes offer some useful tips for the user to understand that inputs purpose.

Another well know scenario are the search forms .. where you see written search and when you click the forms goes empty, that doesn't offer to much information but it makes for a better user experience by providing an elegant dynamic search form.

Well the way to do it is JavaScript. I saw a lot of ways to do it, with functions, but that all seems to complicated to me for such a simple thing. My way is to write the JS directly in the input code:

DEMO

Because people asked for a demo, i will point them to the right bar, called search . That is the effect you will get.

hope you enjoy this,
Cheers

Just a few minutes ago i read a shocking news about Google/Yahoo Search Partnership Announcement. It turns out that Yahoo will outsource all or part of Yahoo search marketing, and possibly search itself, to Google.

As this news not yet official but very likely to be true since there have been announces before about this potential partnership, controversial debates about if this is good or bad, and about that a competitive search market is needed for a healthy Internet are starting to apear.

Yahoo and Google will make a joint announcement at 1:30 California time this afternoon and then we will know the oficial side of the story.

Never the less this is big news for the internet marketing, SEO, and Affiliate Marketing industries.