Don’t just get results, crystallize them! SearchCrystal is a new kind of search engine, aimed at, what else, creating more relevant, comprehensive results and presenting them to you in a whole new way. SearchCrystal is going a different route, allowing you to perform effective visual searches which present you with results within the realm of web pages, images, videos, blogs, news, tags, patents, or a mashup of all of these.
Click on the catagory designated tabs and type in your query. You results will be displayed in a sphere, forming crystals for unique search engines such as Ask, Google, MSN, Yahoo, and others.
SearchCrystal can also be used as a flash web app which you can embed anywhere you can imput a code. This engine also performs searches beyond your basic keyword, you can also utilize their “competitive search” tool which allows you to type in your name, your companies name or a competitor and then these results can be easily analyzed to see how the world views you. Maybe a little egotistical if you ask me, though it is an excellent way to see how you, your company, your website or product stacks up against the rest.
SearchCrystal.com In Their Own Words
“searchCrystal is dedicated to enabling you to perform powerful searches visually.
We are developing searchCrystal as a Flash web application so that you can embed it on a page of your choice or use the full version in your browser.
Your feedback will help us to improve searchCrystal.
searchCrystal enables you to see the big picture, gain new insights and interact with search results in new ways.
searchCrystal makes it possible to explore and filter 50 – 500 web pages, images, videos, blogs in a single display that guides people toward relevant info in a structured way. Information most likely to be relevant is placed close the display center. “
Why SearchCrystal.com It Might Be A Killer
SearchCrystal definitely gets points for something fresh, something new, in a web full of search engines that all look and act nearly the same. They took the idea of the “visual search” and then took it farther, as opposed to other visual searches, this one utilizes a visual map to demonstrate to you, in a glance, which results are most relevant, and to which engine they belong. While I really enjoy this idea, I also feel the execution was a little less that what I would have liked to see. The search results took quite a long time to load, and not enough results were displayed (only about 5 per search engine). Whether or not this was intentional, I liked that there were no repeat results for the various engines.
Some Questions About SearchCrystal.com
Will result processing be sped up? Could they also provide screen shots of the displayed results by mousing over? Many of the results only display a few words, most of which were not very discriptive or telling of it’s relevancy. Perhaps displaying a screen shot or an extension of the blurb will help users decide whether or not the URL is what they are looking for before clicking through. 
