Visual searching on the web can be done through various websites that provide visual interfaces for searching the web and databases. Some examples mentioned are Grokker, Kartoo, and Quintura for general web searching, and Oskope for searching across sites like Amazon and eBay. The document also discusses several tools for visual searching of news, photos, music, flights, Wikipedia edits and Twitter. Additional references are provided on the topic of visual searching and information visualization.

1. VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley

2. 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

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

4. Kartoo.com

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

10. 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.

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

12. Stacks view

13. Pile view

14. List view

15. Graph view, sorted by price and salesrank

16. Like.com is for online visual shopping

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

19. 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/

21. Marumushi.com US top news

22. Marumushi.com Canada top news

23. Digg Labs arc

24. Digg labs stack

25. Digg labs bigspy

26. Digg labs swarm

31. 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

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

35. 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

36. AMADIG:Youtube and Amazon

37. Visual twitter

38. Tuneglue

39. musicmesh

40. Flight Wait: real-time flight conditions on a map

41. Flight delays on April 1 st at 4:35pm

42. Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real-time

43. More Links very interactive…try these out! Onondaga County Public Library WebBrain Tafiti VIMA PicLens Viewzi Searchme

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

45. WebBrain

46. Tafiti

47. Tafiti You tube videos Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXPgRvBo2c narrated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIzEqA4W798

48. VIMA Visual Image Search

49. PicLens How PicLens works: http://www.piclens.com/demo/#

50. Viewzi

51. Searchme

52. For more information Contact Jill Tinsley [email_address] 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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