Visual Search Engines sound like they should be fun, should work better than textual based search (Google/Yahoo/MSN) but most people don't search using Kartoo or any of the number of variants out there - because the pictures don't add much value.

John Battelle mentioned a new search engine, PageBull, that actually is fun to use. It's one thing to go to each page, one by one, and look at them - it's quite another thing to the top pages about a subject next to each other with the keywords highlighted.

Lets' see what we can learn about People.

Avinash Kaushik - people talk about Avinash more than he does himself …..as the pictures show.

Amy Crehore -  Can see a lot about Amy's paintings and who she's illustrated for as well as pictures of her.

Fred Stonehouse - Look at the different "Fred Stonehouse's" out there - there's some noise but it's an interesting comparison.  Doing a search on Fred Stonehouse Painting shows two versions of my interview with in in ArtNewYorkCity.com

Brice Marden's work and life are much easier to see with PageBull than Google.

And Joe Coleman's paintings and life are a lot easier to take in visual - in this format - than textually.

What about Subjects such as Blu Ray Disks?   Just found out there is now a 100GB Blue Ray Disk when last I heard, the capacity was 20-20 GB (replacing today's DVD's).

Otto Dix - I saw a lot of his work at the Met recently in the Verist painting ( Verism - German Portraits from the 1920s @ Metropolitan Museum of Art ) show that's currently up and wrote about it on ArtNewYorkCity.com   I did a search on Verist Art which actually produced some good results (but some noise too).

And what about Political Figures like George W. Bush?  You can kinda see that with all the positive stuff - result number 4 is a "Bush Watch" site.

Will be using PageBull a lot more.