VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley

VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley

Visual searching on the web Web searching www. Grokker. com www. Kartoo. com www. Quintura. com http: //kids. quintura. com/ Database searching www. Oskope. com amazon, e. Bay, and more www. Like. com shopping

Grokker. com is a free web version. Map view is a visual display with added filters.

Kartoo. com

Quintura allows you to eliminate search terms by clicking on red X

o. Skope is a visual browser that lets you search and organize items from different web services like Amazon, Ebay, You. Tube or Flickr in an intuitive way.

Grid view, mouseover a photo to see details, with additional links

Stacks view

Pile view

List view

Graph view, sorted by price and salesrank

Like. com is for online visual shopping

You can highlight a part of the image you like, and find similar shapes and colors. For example, find dresses with a similar bodice.

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/

Marumushi. com US top news

Marumushi. com Canada top news

Digg Labs arc

Digg labs stack

Digg labs bigspy

Digg labs swarm

Visual searches - photos http: //ideeinc. com/introvideo/ Video overview demonstrating how to use the site http: //labs. ideeinc. com/multicolour/ colors http: //labs. ideeinc. com/visual/#random=525 098 visual search photos http: //labs. ideeinc. com/upload/ upload photo and find similar

Upload or provide url for image, and find visually similar photos

More visual mashups http: //amadig. com/us/amadig. html youtube and amazon Ø http: //explore. twitter. com/blocks visual twitter Ø http: //twitterposter. com/ visual twitter Ø http: //audiomap. tuneglue. net/ music Ø http: //www. musicmesh. net/ music Ø http: //www. flightwait. com/ Flight delays Ø http: //www. lkozma. net/wpv/ Wikipedia vision Ø

AMADIG: Youtube and Amazon

Visual twitter

Tuneglue

musicmesh

Flight Wait: real-time flight conditions on a map

Flight delays on April 1 st at 4: 35 pm

Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real-time

More Links very interactive…try these out! Onondaga County Public Library Web. Brain Tafiti VIMA Pic. Lens Viewzi Searchme

http: //visual. onlib. org/aquabrowser/

Web. Brain

Tafiti

Tafiti You tube videos Music: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=jw. XPg. Rv. Bo 2 c narrated: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=a. Iz. Eq. A 4 W 798

VIMA Visual Image Search

Pic. Lens How Pic. Lens works: http: //www. piclens. com/demo/#

Viewzi

Searchme

For more information Contact Jill Tinsley jilltinsley@cox. net Available online at: http: //www. slideshare. net Title: Information Visualization Using Mashups Keywords: mashups, visualsearching You may link to or download this presentation if you credit the author. Thank you.

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