I've been experimenting with Spezify, a new visual search tool that pulls from Flickr, Yahoo, and a number of other search sources through their APIs and presents the results as thumbnails of screen shots, images, and videos spread out on your screen.  Try this search for Hanover, NH.  It's feels more like making a scrap book than using an encyclopedia or Google.  A list of related words are displayed across the navigation bar linking to a new search.  My initial reaction to Speziy is very postiive but I quickly wanted a way to refine and organize results.  Hopefully that's in the pipeline. 

 From www.spezify.com:

About

Spezify is founded in Stockholm, Sweden by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson who have over 10 years experience within the creative digital industry.

A beta was released late April 2009 and the first official version went online on the 15th of June. We are constantly working on Spezify, adding API:s and enhancing the search experience for upcoming versions.

Inspired search

Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.

We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.

We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.

We collect websites and are aiming to use as many relevant, free and open API:s as possible to generate extensive and diverse search results.