Visual Search Engines
Search Engines using multimedia are combined here with Mindmaps - all are great for understanding an overall system and its working parts. Check out the following sites.
| Mindmapping is the technique of arranging ideas and their interconnections visually. It's a popular brainstorming technique. The Mind Mapping Resource Center has collected some of the best resources and tools on this subject into one convenient location. This Resource Center helps you to learn more about how to create mindmaps, as well as how to use them in your business, for personal goal-setting and more. | |
| This is a very powerful mindmapping application that inputs from other sources including Hoovers, LexisNexis, spreadsheets, etc. Subscription costs about $2,000. | |
| Antarctica has been around for many years. It's a Canadian company doing visualization work. The Demo is excellent and free. It consists of Artarctica Visualization Technology using the PubMed Database. | |
| An interesting mindmap of Blogstreet. Uses TouchGraph. | |
| An excellent mindmapping beginners' tool. | |
| Grokker is an easy-to-use visual search engine. It's necessary to download Grokker; offers a free trial and costs about $50. | |
| Includes Best Buy catalog and AllRecipes.com database. | |
| KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. Click on OK, and KartOO lauches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm. It's a very polished search engine, but it's possible that the search results mirror Overture paid positions. KartOO is too cool. | |
| MusicPlasma is a great visual search engine that allows you to identify all the artists that fit your musical tastes. | |
| Visualize the Stock Market with this handy tool. | |
| TouchGraph is one of the top visual search engines. Being shown a graph of familiar information is like looking at a map of one's meighborhood. One may have had knowledge of it by walking around, but seeing a map of the territory gives one a much better understanding of the proportions involved. | |
| WebBrain | Uses The Brain Technologies to visually browse the ODP. |