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Visual & Clustering
Search Enginesas tools for concept generation, mind
mapping, outlining & more
PF Anderson, Emerging
Technologies Librarian, Health
Sciences, [email protected]
© 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
Visual & Clustering Search
• Clustering search
• Term and concept based
• Useful for term and concept generation exercises
• Useful to expand set of terms in MEDLINE and
Web searches
• Visual
• Organizes results visually or graphically
• Sometimes includes image search
Why?
• New topic: term and concept discovery
• Concept or topic tracking: graphic
representations to capture change over
time
• Visualization generation to create
images describing concept or term
• Can use in presentation slides
Selected Search Engines
• Ask
• Clusty
• Don Busca
• Exalead
• Gigablast
• Grokker
• iBoogie
• IncyWincy
• Kartoo
• KillerInfo
• KoolTorch
• ManagedQ
• MedStory
• Middlespot
• Mooter
• oSkope
• PubMed FaceOff
• Quintura
• RedZee
• SearchCrystal
• SearchMe
• TouchGraph
• Ujiko
• Viewzi
• Vivisimo
Clustering Search Tools
IncyWincy
• Bioethics
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KillerInfo
• Bioethics - concepts
Don Busca
• bioethics
Clusty
• Bioethics - concepts
Exalead
• Bioethics - terms, types, media,
filetypes
Vivisimo
• Bioethics
iBoogie
• Bioethics - concepts
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iBoogie
• Bioethics - images
Gigablast
• Bioethics - concepts
Gigablast
• Bioethics - images
Gigablast
• Bioethics - videos
Ask.com
• Bioethics - concepts, images, and more
Visual Search Tools
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Grokker
• bioethics
KoolTorch
• Bioethics - 1
KoolTorch
• Bioethics - 2, navigation
RedZee
• Bioethics - prioritization
Mooter
• bioethics
Quintura
• Bioethics
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MedStory
• Bioethics
Ujiko
• bioethics
ManagedQ
• Bioethics - person, place, thing,
thumbnails
Kartoo
• Bioethics
SearchMe: Video Browsing Touchgraph
• Searches & displays visualizations of results for:• Web
• Amazon books
• Amazon music
• Amazon DVDs
• Use as visualization tool, graphic concept generator, discovery of like authors / performers and more
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Touchgraph
• Web search for bioethics
Touchgraph
• Web search for bioethics - enlarged
Touchgraph
• Amazon browser
Touchgraph
• Amazon book search for bioethics
Touchgraph
• Amazon book search for bioethics
• Recentered by clicking on plus sign for
a specific book of interest
• Enlarged
Touchgraph
• Amazon book search - Lisa See
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Touchgraph
• Amazon movie search - Miyazaki
Touchgraph
• Amazon music search - Jonatha
Brookes
Touchgraph
• Amazon music search - Tom Waits
Viewzi
Viewzi: Photocloud View PubMed FaceOff
• http://www.postgenomic.com/faces/i
ndex.php
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PubMed FaceOff
• Polverini search
PubMed FaceOff
• Polverini results
Coming Soon to a Computer
Near You
SearchCrystal
TinEye
• Searches from a seed images
TinEye
• Creates embeddable widgets
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What else?
• Possible applications• Concept clarification for ESL students
• Breaking the “white page” block
• Tools for “concrete thinkers” to work with abstract concepts
• Assignment to compare concepts generated across tools
• Assignment to evaluate recommended concepts for 2-3 tools - do you agree with recommendations?
• What can you imagine doing with these tools?