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The Atlantic Monthly | November 2006
Pursuits & Retreats
Gizmo Watch
Searches, Backups, Soul of a New Program
by James Fallows
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 ast month I mentioned several search engines that “cluster” or classify the pages they have found, rather than presenting a plain Google- or Yahoo-style list of results. Another worth considering is Kartoo, which was created by two young developers in France. Like Grokker and some other clustering sites, Kartoo presents a visual map of pages related to your query, with conceptually similar sites bunched together and with links showing which bunch of results is related to which other bunch. Ujiko, another clustering engine from the same company, displays results with a different, dial-like map, and claims to be able to improve its search sophistication over time, as it observes which results you end up clicking on. Each is worth a look.
Mooter, from a company in Australia, produces sparer-looking but otherwise similar conceptual maps of search results. Indeed, its interface is so plain that it closely resembles Google’s original site, before home-page links were added for News, Video, Images, Maps, and Google’s other new features.
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