Relational search engines help you find more of the information you are looking for faster than with a traditional liner meta search. Grokker does a good job at relational search by federating content from Yahoo and Wikipedia. The results page has two main views which are a list view and a map view. The list view is interesting because it shows you a collapsable / expandable outline view of the categories, and a detail view. It also give you some tools to narrow your search such as a date slider, view by either Yahoo, Wikipedia or both, by keyword within the outline, and finally, by domain. The map view gives you the same tools with an expanded visualization map of the results and relationships. Very fun, easy to use, and great for discovering related results.
Max Kiesler is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder
and principal of Ideacodes.com, a web consultancy in San Francisco focused on next generation websites. About Max...
07-24 5:15
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