Slide 1

VISUAL SEARCHING on the
Web

by Jill Tinsley


Slide 2

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


Slide 3

Grokker.com is a free web version.
Map view is a visual display with
added filters.


Slide 4

Kartoo.com


Slide 5


Slide 6


Slide 7

Quintura allows you to eliminate
search terms by clicking on red X


Slide 8


Slide 9


Slide 10

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.


Slide 11

Grid view, mouseover a photo to
see details, with additional links


Slide 12

Stacks view


Slide 13

Pile view


Slide 14

List view


Slide 15

Graph view, sorted by price and
salesrank


Slide 16

Like.com is for online
visual shopping


Slide 17

You can highlight a part of the image you
like, and find similar shapes and colors. For
example, find dresses with a similar bodice.


Slide 18


Slide 19

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/


Slide 20


Slide 21

Marumushi.com
US top news


Slide 22

Marumushi.com
Canada top news


Slide 23

Digg Labs arc


Slide 24

Digg labs stack


Slide 25

Digg labs bigspy


Slide 26

Digg labs swarm


Slide 27


Slide 28


Slide 29


Slide 30


Slide 31

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=5250
98 visual search photos
http://labs.ideeinc.com/upload/ upload photo
and find similar


Slide 32


Slide 33


Slide 34

Upload or provide url for image,
and find visually similar photos


Slide 35

More visual mashups








http://amadig.com/us/amadig.html youtube and
amazon
http://explore.twitter.com/blocks visual twitter
http://twitterposter.com/ visual twitter
http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ music
http://www.musicmesh.net/ music
http://www.flightwait.com/ Flight delays
http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ Wikipedia vision


Slide 36

AMADIG:Youtube and Amazon


Slide 37

Visual twitter


Slide 38

Tuneglue


Slide 39

musicmesh


Slide 40

Flight Wait: real-time flight
conditions on a map


Slide 41

Flight delays on April 1st at 4:35pm


Slide 42

Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits
to Wikipedia in real-time


Slide 43

More Links
very interactive…try these out!
Onondaga County Public Library
WebBrain
Tafiti
VIMA
PicLens
Viewzi
Searchme


Slide 44

http://visual.onlib.org/aquabrowser/


Slide 45

WebBrain


Slide 46

Tafiti


Slide 47

Tafiti
You tube videos
Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXPgRvBo2c

narrated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIzEqA4W798


Slide 48

VIMA Visual Image Search


Slide 49

PicLens
How PicLens works:
http://www.piclens.com/demo/#


Slide 50

Viewzi


Slide 51

Searchme


Slide 52

For more information
Contact Jill Tinsley
[email protected]
Available online at:
http://www.slideshare.net
Title: Information Visualization Using Mashups
Keywords: mashups, visualsearching

You may link to or download this presentation if
you credit the author. Thank you.


Slide 53

Want to learn more?












Bouman, K., Jenks-Brown, A., Tran, T., & Vose, D. (2007). Visualize your
catalog. (cover story). Library Journal, 132, 10-11.
Chung, W., Chen, H. & Nunamaker, J. (2005). A visual framework for
knowledge discovery on the web: An empirical study of business intelligence
exploration. Journal of Management Information Systems, 21(4), 57-84.
Eden, B. (2005). Information visualization. Library Technology Reports, 41(1),
7-17.
Gonsalves, A. (2005). Groxis search moves to web. InformationWeek, (1039),
51-51.
Hooberman,L., et al. (2003). The potential of visual navigation. BBC R & D
White Paper. Online :http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp075.shtml
Keller, T., Gerjets, P., Scheiter, K., & Garsoffky, B. (2006). Information
visualizations for knowledge acquisition: The impact of dimensionality and
color coding. Computers in Human Behavior, 22(1), 43-65.
Miller, R. (2006). Groxis, inc. EContent, 29(10), 39-40.
Levy, S. (2002). Global search. Newsweek, 140(21), 84.


Slide 54

Additional references







Plosker, G. R. (2006). The time has come for visual search. Online, 30(4),
45-47.
Power, D. (2006). Image search steps in where words fail. WWD: Women's
Wear Daily, 192(98), 9-9.
Rogers, M. (2006). EBSCO partners with groxis for visual database
searching. Library Journal, 131(5), 23-24.
Tenopir, C. (2006). Visualizing search. Library Journal, 131(8), 33-33.
Wildstrom, S. H. (2003). A picture is worth 1,000 charts. Business week,
(3816), 20-20.
Wohl, A. D. (2005). Inter-face lift. IEEE Spectrum, 42(11), 32-36.