RedZee - Watch Your Searches

Google holds the monopoly when it comes to online search engine. Yahoo, the second best search engine comes only a distant second. Many search engines were launched with new concepts to challenge Google’s might, but most of them simply vanished. The latest trend is “Visual Search Engine”. This idea looks like one that will be here to stay. One of the Visual Search Engine which is out in its beta form is RedZee. How successful this concept and RedZee will be only time can tell. As a beginning RedZee is not bad, especially considering the fact that Visual Search Engine concept is in incubation stage. But the fact that in the end of all they have to compete with the likes of Yahoo and Google could be their biggest disadvantage. But nothing can be said at these early hours.

RedZee’s biggest attraction should be their Mascot. I don’t know whether they call it RedZee – But it’s very well animated and will surely make everyone try their service for at least once. Below is the screenshot of the search result.
RedZee gives a text description of the sites, but only one at a time. Many were critical about RedZee ability as a search engine, as a text based description will give more information. But I believe RedZee has its own advantages, especially those who are searching for entertainment and Media related stuffs. For them, RedZee’s interface could be better than that of Yahoo and Google as we can get a glimpse of the site. But for information related search, I do believe RedZee would be in a disadvantage. But RedZee’s biggest disadvantage is the relevancy of searches – when I did a search for "f c Barcelona" (without quotes), the official Barcelona site came at fifth. Ahead of it were Wikipedia and Blogger. This could be because of the amount of blogs about Barcelona hosted by Blogger. My site All About F C Barcelona never came in the result. If you include the quotes in your search terms, nothing shows up. This could be disastrous as all the net users are trained by Google to search a particular combination this way. Second problem is with the search box in the search result page. Enter key does not work here and also you cannot select a particular to delete or edit here.

But over the entire concept put forward by RedZee. It’s still in its beta version and could turn out to be a more powerful tool when moving out of Beta. But the biggest problem for these guys could arise if Google decides to implement a Visual Search Engine.