Help with xmas shopping – Like.com: a new visual search engine
I would describe Like.com as a widget-tastic visual search engine for online shoppers who like their bling! You begin by, for example, clicking a picture of a leather-clad Madonna which presents you with an array of similar looking items (FMBs and so on) from various vendors. Thereafter you refine your results with a “likeness” search. Which is where the fun starts.
The results will display thumbnails of a particular item, let’s say pairs of boots, and you can filter boots according to features such as pattern, shape, colour etc and you can specify your price range all with the use of sliders (more sliders on the web please, they’re so cool!) and mostly with AJAX, so very few page refreshes.
In its current incarnation Like.com is severely limited — you can only search for jewelry, shoes, watches and handbags — and of no tangible use to me. But the interface is the most intuitive I’ve seen in search engines in a long time.
Categories: Technology, Web 2.0, innovation
