Visual Searching On The Web Using Mashups

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, eBay, 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

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.

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/

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/ colors

http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/#random=525098 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

http://explore.twitter.com/blocks visual twitter

http://twitterposter.com/ visual twitter

http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ music

http://www.musicmesh.net/ music

http://www.flightwait.com/ Flight delays

http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ Wikipedia vision

http://www.eyesearch.org/ search engine

AMADIG:Youtube and Amazon

Visual twitter

Tuneglue

musicmesh

Flight Wait: real-time flight conditions on a map

Flight delays on April 1 st at 4:35pm

Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real-time

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Title: Visual searching on the web using mashups

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