A Look at Image Search Engine NetVue
Netvue allows users to search the internet for graphics, clipart, and photos. Netvue’s slide show presentation of results allows users to see the images in full size.
While other image search sites restrict you to looking at a page of tiny thumbnails, Netvue simply retrieves the originating image itself. Other image search engines are fallible because they show thumbnails for content which may be inaccessible to you. Quite often, a user spends their time looking at “Page Not Found” errors and is forced to go ‘back’ and try their luck with clicking another thumbnail. Netvue is free of these hassles because it retrieves the full-sized image itself, skipping those that no longer exist.
The idea for an image search slide show began in 2003 with a program called Netvue Image Finder. It was quite popular and reached some small fame in international publications. The original application was written in Visual Basic .NET™ and therefore was not compatible across operating systems. Now they’re employing the same idea, but putting it in a web page and making it compatible with Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems. Now everyone can enjoy their image search technology without installing any separate software.
