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Visual & Clustering

Search Enginesas tools for concept generation, mind

mapping, outlining & more

PF Anderson, Emerging

Technologies Librarian, Health

Sciences, pfa@umich.edu

© 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

• Facebook

• 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

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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?