VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley

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VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill
Tinsley
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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

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Grokker.com is a free web version. Map view is a
visual display with added filters.
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Kartoo.com
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Quintura allows you to eliminate search terms by
clicking on red X
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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.
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Grid view, mouseover a photo to see details, with
additional links
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Stacks view
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Pile view
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List view
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Graph view, sorted by price and salesrank
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Like.com is for onlinevisual shopping
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You can highlight a part of the image you like,
and find similar shapes and colors. For example,
find dresses with a similar bodice.
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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/

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Marumushi.comUS top news
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Marumushi.com Canada top news
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Digg Labs arc
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Digg labs stack
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Digg labs bigspy
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Digg labs swarm
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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/random525098
  visual search photos
• http//labs.ideeinc.com/upload/ upload photo and
  find similar

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

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AMADIGYoutube and Amazon
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Visual twitter
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Tuneglue
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musicmesh
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Flight Wait real-time flight conditions on a map
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Flight delays on April 1st at 435pm
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Wikipedia Vision anonymous edits to Wikipedia in
real-time
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More Linksvery interactivetry these out!

• Onondaga County Public Library
• WebBrain
• Tafiti
• VIMA
• PicLens
• Viewzi
• Searchme

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http//visual.onlib.org/aquabrowser/
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WebBrain
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Tafiti
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Tafiti

• You tube videos
• Music
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vjwXPgRvBo2c
• narrated
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vaIzEqA4W798

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VIMA Visual Image Search
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PicLens

• How PicLens works
• http//www.piclens.com/demo/

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Viewzi
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Searchme
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For more information

• Contact Jill Tinsley
• jilltinsley_at_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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Want to learn more?

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• Levy, S. (2002). Global search. Newsweek,
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Additional references

• Plosker, G. R. (2006). The time has come for
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• Wildstrom, S. H. (2003). A picture is worth 1,000
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• Wohl, A. D. (2005). Inter-face lift. IEEE
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