KartOO designed cartographic interfaces that allow you to quickly find data in searches, in timelines and in specific locations. Kartoo's solutions call upon an intuitive and intelligent semantic technology, thereby offering you structured and easy-to-access results.
Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research's "computational knowledge engine," set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be afraid of? Wolfram Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram on Tuesday gave a demo of the service to a crowd of online reporters. Few have access to the private test version of the service itself, but we got access Monday night. We found it compelling, if limited. We're eager to see this site develop. It does things with online information that Google does not. Here are our impressions of the current version of Wolfram Alpha.
Principles of categorized search result visualization
We are developing a set of search result visualization principles, based on the premise that consistent, comprehensible visual displays built on meaningful and stable classifications will better support user understanding of search results.
1. Provide overviews of large sets of results (100-1000+)
2. Organize overviews around meaningful categories
3. Clarify and visualize category structure
4. Tightly couple category labels to result list
5. Ensure that the full category information is available
6. Support multiple types of categories and visual presentations
7. Use separate facets for each type of category
8. Arrange text for scanning/skimming
9. Visually encode quantitative attributes on a stable visual structure
Basic principle: each time you visit a new site, you are gaining one point of expertise. With every 10 points, you move to the next level. Your search engine is mutating, new buttons appear giving you access to advanced features (search video, images, news, encylopedia, advanced filters, animated skins, web archive, traffic details...)
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