Check out this comparison and blog entry on visual search engines - http://www.searchlounge.org/index.php?cat=6

Visual Search Engines:

KartOO

Grokker

KoolTorch

Quintura - article: http://searchengineland.com/070301-053620.php

Ditto

Mooter

MusicPlasma

Clusty - http://www.searchlounge.org/?p=8

Lygo - [not sure about this one]

RedZee - just go see this one for the uber-cute zebra graphic! - http://redzee.com/

OScope - http://oskope.com/

Ujiko - http://www.ujiko.com/v2a/en_htm/index.htm

Pagebull (site working?)

TouchGraph for Google (displays web linkages more than it is a search engine per se)

Managed Q

Like.com (shopping) - article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/likecom-revisiting-visual-search-as-it-should-be/6144/

Searchme...interesting new SE as per Susie's latest 557 listserv email...Marcia registering as Beta test user.

"Homework"

Me-Linh

Article: Miller, R. Get the Picture: visualizing the future of search. EContent v. 27 no. 4 (April 2004) p. 30-2, 34-5  VisualSearchEngine.pdf -  ml

Search Engine:  Like.com  

Game: ...

Sarah

Article: Luther, J., Kelly, M. & Beagle, C. (2005). Visualize this. Library Journal. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA504640.html?industryid=47125

Search Engine: KoolTorch

Game:

Marcia

From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web

http://tinyurl.com/yw9mde    somewhat technical but interesting examples of visual results and discussion of these.

Naz

Search Engine: Children's search engine

http://kids.quintura.com

Article: Holly Gunn, (2007). Searching the Web with search engines for children. Teacher Librarain 34:5 (seeWebfor kids.pdf)

Other Articles 

1. Article on implications/importance of visual search for "Millennials":

Marketing the Millennials: What They Expect From Their Library Experience

Patricia M. Duck and Randi Koeske

April 7–10, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota

www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/duck-etal05.pdf

Relevant quotes:

“Having grown up in an era of television and video games, they are visually oriented and are easily bored with sequential tasks and may have short attention spans.“

“This survey seems to confirm that while millennials are technologically savvy their visual orientation and short attention spans may hinder their efforts in doing research”