I remember when I was a kid, and I saw Back to the Future II for the first time on my TV. My TV had 40 channels or so on it and I could only see one at a time. It was towards the very beginning of the movie when the younger McFly is in his house talking to his TV, something along the lines of, “Give me channel 60, channel 84, channel 192, and channel 137,” and suddenly they all showed up on the screen simultaneously, the kid of the future watching all these channels at once. This really caught my attention. Imagine the possibilities of the future. Amazing. This was, of course, before digital cable or the so-called “internet”.

I remember thinking then, my TV-poisoned child mind in rapture, “Now that is the future.” This is the point: It’s almost 2009. I’m getting really tired of the same old search engines, just giving you a list of links like that’s the only thing you can handle. This is the future. It’s here. We’re only 6 years away from where McFly junior fictionally watched his multiTV (2015), and we’re still looking at a list of blue-texted links in a list with a white background? Come on! What year is this? Stop it already! Look what’s out there! Read this blog! Check out Viewzi!

When I first saw this, I felt I was McFly Jr., finally fulfilling my childhood fantasy of watching all those TV channels at once. That’s what it was.

Viewzi takes your search query, tries to figure out what it is, content wise, and what you’re looking for, and gives you a whole bunch of different possible views that can help you see what you want clearly, and by golly futuristically. You can check out the video for all the different views there are and you can pick your favorites and personalize of course, but the point is this. If you’re searching for a video, there’s a video view. If you’re searching for music, there’s an album view. If you’re searching for weather, there’s a weather view. If you’re searching for screenshots, there’s that. Not just a list of links.

For my very first search, I typed in my favorite band. It is They Might Be Giants. I go to the album view, and I see a list of albums, laid out on a screen, with pictures of all the albums, like so.

I noticed there’s an album I do not have. I click on it, to see what songs there are. Some new ones!

Maybe I should listen to them and see if I want this thing? I click listen. Viewzi leads me to a music site that allows me to play the song I clicked on.

This is not an attempt to break Google or Yahoo. It is an attempt to wake the world up to the possibilities of organized visual search. The potential is so huge, and it’s beginning to be actualized. But in order for it to be fully realized, these new guys need our help. Go to Viewzi. Understand the possibilities. No lists of links. Links are just text. They don’t let you see anything. Live free. Vision. Pick your view. Watch your channels. See it all at once. Become…Marty McFly.

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