The future of search will be visual
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From UX perspective, if you can make the preview as mouseover with the content being displayed on a separate layer using iframe maybe much more convenient than open a new page and come back.
Now when I search for "keyboard", I saw totally different thing from last night. This time, I do see the preview for each site instead of big pictures. But I cannot say it's better to see the vague website page is better than see the clear product picture. I'm sorry to downgrade your hard work. Maybe other users think it's better. I only speak my mind.
How about using <jsp:include> for each preview page? The code looks like:
<div id="xyz_div" style="display:none> <jsp:include page="xxx.jsp" /> </div>
#xyz_div { background-color:#000;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.95);display:none;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2; }
<a href="#" onmouseover="javascript:showDiv('xyz_div'); <img title="Like to take a peek on the site? Click on it!" src="<%=asdf.gif %>"></img></a>
This code definitely will not work, but just a hint. Check out Google image, when you click on a certain image, it expends to the details of the image. But still different I know. The rest is your job. But don't be hurry. Let me know if you have an update or need more feedback, email danmark.clara -at- yahoo.com.