Visual searching on the web

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Visual searching on the web

• Web searching
• www.Grokker.com
• www.Kartoo.com
• www.Quintura.com
• Database searching
• www.Oskope.com amazon, eBay, and more
• www.Like.com shopping

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Grokker.com is the free web version. Map view is
similar to the Ebsco functions, with added
filters.
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Quintura allows you to eliminate search terms by
clicking on red X
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oSkope is a visual browser that lets you search
and organize items from different web services
like Amazon, Ebay, YouTube or Flickr in an
intuitive way.
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Grid view, mouseover a photo to see details, with
additional links
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Stacks view
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Pile view
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List view
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Graph view, sorted by price and salesrank
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Like.com is for onlinevisual shopping
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You can highlight a part of the image you like,
and find similar shapes and colors. For example,
find dresses with a similar bodice.
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Visual News

• www.reverbiage.com/tags NPR
• www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
• www.labs.digg.com/
• www.searchmapr.com/
• www.roomformilk.com/
• www.buzztracker.org/
• www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/

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Marumushi.comUS top news
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Marumushi.com Canada top news
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Digg labs arc
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Digg labs bigspy
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Digg labs stack
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Digg labs swarm
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Visual searches - photos

• http//ideeinc.com/introvideo/
• Video overview demonstrating how to use the site
• http//labs.ideeinc.com/
• http//labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/ colors
• http//labs.ideeinc.com/visual/random525098
  visual search photos
• http//labs.ideeinc.com/upload/ upload photo and
  find similar

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Want to learn more?

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• Miller, R. (2006). Groxis, inc. EContent, 29(10),
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• Plosker, G. R. (2006). The time has come for
  visual search. Online, 30(4), 45-47.
• Power, D. (2006). Image search steps in where
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• Rogers, M. (2006). EBSCO partners with groxis for
  visual database searching. Library Journal,
  131(5), 23-24.
• Tenopir, C. (2006). Visualizing search. Library
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• Wildstrom, S. H. (2003). A picture is worth 1,000
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• Hooberman,L., et al. (2003). The potential of
  visual navigation. BBC R D White Paper.
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