Topic: New image search engine

[sastro]

My new image search engine just launched.
I need your advice or critique.

Thanks

[ILMV]

The design isn't exactly appealing, quite frankly there is too much to distract the eye on the home page from the search box, and the results page from the search results.

The colour scheme is too complex (too many colours), also, the choice of colour would be better suited for an audience of babies, mums etc. It's the colours you would usually find on toys designed for young children.

I don't really care about what other people have been searching for, when I hit the site it wasn't obvious what these links were, it seems as if you were trying to play up to the search engines, this just screamed link farm to me. Also, you have explicit links in your recently searched box, this is a massive no no.

Also, why do I want my search term shared with the rest of the world? This seems a little backwards to me.


I guess the issues boil down to the same problem at the end of the day, when creating a service that competes directly with Google, what are your USPs? Becuase if you don't have at least one that will blow my socks off, you can be pretty sure it won't be successful.


Just my 2c

[Cetanu]

The design isn't exactly appealing, quite frankly there is too much to distract the eye on the home page from the search box, and the results page from the search results.

The colour scheme is too complex (too many colours), also, the choice of colour would be better suited for an audience of babies, mums etc. It's the colours you would usually find on toys designed for young children.

I don't really care about what other people have been searching for, when I hit the site it wasn't obvious what these links were, it seems as if you were trying to play up to the search engines, this just screamed link farm to me. Also, you have explicit links in your recently searched box, this is a massive no no.

Also, why do I want my search term shared with the rest of the world? This seems a little backwards to me.


I guess the issues boil down to the same problem at the end of the day, when creating a service that competes directly with Google, what are your USPs? Becuase if you don't have at least one that will blow my socks off, you can be pretty sure it won't be successful.


Just my 2c

I agree with all of that ^.
The cube seemed like those blocks babies play with, the colors screamed maternity ward, and my eyes went all over the place with those colored links, not to mention, times new roman normally makes websites a little boring for some reason.


AND, in the search results where it says "Latest Keyword" (one of the major downfalls of the site) it says XXX and PORN in the links. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. The colors appeal to moms and the keywords appeal to creepy old guys sitting in their shacks.

[jcombs_31]

I agree that the first thing I think when I see the logo and colors is baby. Aside from that, nothing seemed to load when I tried a search.

[TheFilmGod]

The logo definitely needs some work. I didn't find the logo to remind me of "babies and moms;" instead it reminded me off google where you have a simple text logo with each letter being a different color. - That too isn't good. You don't want to be a google-rip-off or a search engine used for moms!

The search engine of the backend looks very sleek to me. It has very fast searches with extremely short times to load. You should probably look into integrating your image site with some other website. One suggestion though - why can't you browse more than the first 30 pictures you see?

[bionic25]

'vaginal intercourse', 'sex diagram'?!?! lol you have some seriously strange porn searchers on your site

[Jnerocorp]

Heres a logo that I made that you can use if you want.



Here is what I think you should make your website look like

http://jnerocorp.com/imagesbox/

[Cetanu]

Heres a logo that I made that you can use if you want.



Here is what I think you should make your website look like

http://jnerocorp.com/imagesbox/

Nice

I like that better except for that random pink HISTORY button.

[ry4n0wnz]

Heres a logo that I made that you can use if you want.



Here is what I think you should make your website look like

http://jnerocorp.com/imagesbox/

This certainly looks more professional however I like your colourful approach displayed in your logo.
But for the search box you should really do something about it, also the ugly use of links after. Good luck +!