Spezify

www.spezify.com

Spezify is an innovative style of search engine. It displays your search as randomly placed windows on a flat plane, which you navigate using the click and drag method (classic). This makes it a much more engaging search, both visually and through the curiosity it creates due it being new. It also allows you to narrow your search down, with key or linking words in the top navigation. A very important feature as it would be very difficult to identify the relevant info amongst the millions of pages on the internet.

The design of Spezify is very simple, the page design and the opening page give a sense of a large space, as if it were a warehouse of information. There is a feeling of endlessness, and then when you search for something you're provided with a range of pictures, text and videos to choose from.. I particularly like this style, apposed to the general layout of the average search engine, displaying reams and reams of text, and with those dreaded numbers that say how man thousands of links there are for you to search through.

On the negative side, and it's only a slight one, is that the level of hierarchy for the search findings isn't always apparent.

Overall this is a fresh change to the total domination of google. Where it is nice to have this option in some cases i can't see it gaining a large portion of google's customers.