Visual Searching On The Web Using Mashups

VISUAL SEARCHING on the VISUAL SEARCHING on the WebWeb

by Jill Tinsleyby Jill Tinsley

Visual searching on the webVisual searching on the web

Web searchingWeb searchingwww.Grokker.comwww.Grokker.comwww.Kartoo.comwww.Kartoo.comwww.Quintura.comwww.Quintura.comhttp://kids.quintura.com/http://kids.quintura.com/

Database searchingDatabase searchingwww.Oskope.comwww.Oskope.com amazon, eBay, and more amazon, eBay, and morewww.Like.comwww.Like.com shopping shopping

http://www.grokker.com/

http://www.kartoo.com/

http://www.oskope.com/

http://www.like.com/

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

added filters.

Kartoo.com

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

Stacks view

Pile view

List view

Graph view, sorted by price and salesrank

Like.com is for onlinevisual shopping

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 NewsVisual News

www.reverbiage.com/tagswww.reverbiage.com/tags NPR NPR

www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/

www.labs.digg.com/www.labs.digg.com/

www.searchmapr.com/www.searchmapr.com/

www.roomformilk.com/www.roomformilk.com/

www.buzztracker.org/www.buzztracker.org/

www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/

http://www.reverbiage.com/tags

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/

http://www.labs.digg.com/

http://www.searchmapr.com/

http://www.roomformilk.com/

http://www.buzztracker.org/

http://www.newsisfree.com/newsmap/

Marumushi.comUS top news

Marumushi.com Canada top news

Digg Labs arc

Digg labs stack

Digg labs bigspy

Digg labs swarm

Visual searches - photosVisual searches - photos

http://ideeinc.com/introvideo/http://ideeinc.com/introvideo/Video overview demonstrating how to use Video overview demonstrating how to use

the sitethe sitehttp://labs.ideeinc.com/http://labs.ideeinc.com/http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/ colorshttp://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/ colorshttp://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/

#random=525098 visual search photos#random=525098 visual search photoshttp://labs.ideeinc.com/upload/ upload photo http://labs.ideeinc.com/upload/ upload photo

and find similarand find similar

http://ideeinc.com/introvideo/

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

More visual mashupsMore visual mashups

http://amadig.com/us/amadig.html youtube and http://amadig.com/us/amadig.html youtube and amazonamazon

http://explore.twitter.com/blocks visual twitterhttp://explore.twitter.com/blocks visual twitter http://twitterposter.com/ visual twitterhttp://twitterposter.com/ visual twitter http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ musichttp://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ music http://www.musicmesh.net/ musichttp://www.musicmesh.net/ music http://www.flightwait.com/ Flight delayshttp://www.flightwait.com/ Flight delays http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ Wikipedia visionhttp://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ Wikipedia vision http://www.eyesearch.org/ search enginehttp://www.eyesearch.org/ search engine

AMADIG:Youtube and AmazonAMADIG:Youtube and Amazon

Visual twitterVisual twitter

TuneglueTuneglue

musicmeshmusicmesh

Flight Wait: real-time flight Flight Wait: real-time flight conditions on a mapconditions on a map

Flight delays on April 1Flight delays on April 1stst at 4:35pm at 4:35pm

Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real-timeto Wikipedia in real-time

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Contact Jill TinsleyContact Jill Tinsley

[email protected]@cox.net

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Title: Visual searching on the web using mashupsTitle: Visual searching on the web using mashups

Keywords: mashups, visualsearchingKeywords: mashups, visualsearching

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