New searching tool
Monday, June 18, 2007 by level1librarian
Another interesting link from What I Learned Today:
SearchCrystal searches across five engines, and arranges the results in a visual grid (if you can call a circle a grid). Each engine is color-tagged. The links (text, images, video, blogs, news, or tags) found by more than one engine get a multi-color blob next to it, and is moved closer to the center of the circle.
Sounds like a handy way to zoom in on the most relevant / most popular links. I didn’t have time to play more with it, but it seems you can mash up search results from different categories. Fantastic!
What I would really like for an everyday tool is a mashup of a text editor, browser, search engine like SearchCrystal, EverNote, and Photosynth/Seadragon, possibly in a flexible format like the Microsoft table computer. I guess I’ll have to wait.
