The original intent was a stolen camera registry. In fact, several magazine including shutterbug, pdn and british journal of photography have written about it. Over the past couple of months I have been enhancing it to make it more attractive.
As far as a database competing with camerapedia, icameradb is there to provide info on what you are looking at and not what you are searching for. So, the info is kinda stumble uppon. Although it works the other way too, for example if you view the latest stolen or classifieds, you will see information about the company that makes the item you are viewing, information about where the owner purchased it from including links to the retailer site like BH tc .... and you will see links to sample produced by like equipment. I even wrote a mini forum app or it.
As far as the scrolling text, I am open to color suggestions or even a way to turn it off for the session. I did go from red to green on black text.
Also, did you know you can click on the scrolling text item to see the details of it?
Thanks