Well recently I got an email from the creators of Facesaerch about the amazing new image search engine they have created.
Facesaerch basically helps you find face images of people and celebrities. It is powered by the Google Face Search technology which was unveiled by Google in July last year.
The image results are highly accurate and animate in a fancy cover-flow style which you might have experienced while using a Mac or iTunes. Other than celebrities, Facesaerch works good for finding pictures of common people too.
Facesaerch also has a Facebook app called FriendlyFlow which lets you browse your Facebook friends visually and receive live updates of what they are currently doing.
Sizlopedia is the creation of Saad Hamid, a tech enthusiast from Pakistan who started this blog in 2007.
Seeing the title in the feed i came in to check if the ‘Search’ spelling with mistyped or not
seems the creators choose ‘Saerch’ for some unknown reason.
It would have been impossible for the creators to get the domain FaceSearch.com as it seems to be a premium one.
So perhaps because ‘Saerch’ looks quite funky and close to ‘Search’ so they named it FaceSaerch.com instead.
1) reason one: the “right” spelled combination of face and search seems to belong to a domain grabber and i don’t pay such people a cent
2) the term facesaerch was not existing on google prior, now facesaerch is mentioned 28,700 times - see http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=facesaerch&btnG=Google+Search - not bad for the 28 days since facesaerch is online
3) generic terms are overrated
4) brand your site - and a brand does not need to make sense
5) some reviews outline the ae fact, so the name becomes even more attention. 1/4 of my traffic is direct traffic (means: type in or in-browser bookmarks)
6) thx to SEO it doesn’t matter this much, i rank top-dog for the term “facesearch” (spelled “right”) anyway - 1/4 of my traffic comes via search engines (the other missing half is referring sites)
7) people become curious because is something is not quite right (see mr. tech updates)
thx for your interrest
franz from facesaerch, vienna, austria
I don’t know much about domain names ;), but all I want to say is this name will prove to be a major loss for them because…only geeks and net junkies who used to remember websites addresses by heart can only remember this…visualize if you have to tell someone about the site then what would you tell:”hey bud! here is a new cool website! facesearch.com….in which ‘a’ comes before ‘e’ in the word search” it is complex for noobs…and thus failed as a search engine.
Finally Google recognizes faces. So … What’s next? If you see a girl that you don’t know name, take her photo and send it to Google.
It will say who she is etc. Very nice.
Keep going on!
Aha That Web Service will defiantly have some loss with miss spelled Domain Name.
hi, facesaerch now has a nifty RSSflow visualization function. ie.e. the sizlopedia feed
hope you like it