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VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley. Visual searching on the web. Web searching www.Grokker.com www.Kartoo.com www.Quintura.com http://kids.quintura.com/ Database searching www.Oskope.com amazon, eBay, and more www.Like.com shopping.
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Visual searching on the web Web searching www.Grokker.com www.Kartoo.com www.Quintura.com http://kids.quintura.com/ Database searching www.Oskope.com amazon, eBay, and more www.Like.com shopping
Grokker.com is a free web version. Map view is a visual display with added filters.
Quintura allows you to eliminate search terms by clicking on red X
oSkope is a visual browser that lets you search and organize items from different web services like Amazon, Ebay, YouTube or Flickr in an intuitive way.
Grid view, mouseover a photo to see details, with additional links
You can highlight a part of the image you like, and find similar shapes and colors. For example, find dresses with a similar bodice.
Visual News www.reverbiage.com/tags NPR www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/ www.labs.digg.com/ www.searchmapr.com/ www.roomformilk.com/ www.buzztracker.org/ www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/
Visual searches - photos http://ideeinc.com/introvideo/ Video overview demonstrating how to use the site http://labs.ideeinc.com/ http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/ colors http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/#random=525098 visual search photos http://labs.ideeinc.com/upload/ upload photo and find similar
Upload or provide url for image, and find visually similar photos
For more information Contact Jill Tinsley jilltinsley@cox.net Available online at: http://www.slideshare.net Title: Visual searching on the web using mashups Keywords: mashups, visualsearching You may link to or download this presentation if you credit the author. Thank you.
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