VISUAL SEARCHING on the Web by Jill Tinsley

Visual searching on the web Web searching Database searching amazon, eBay, and more shopping

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 online visual 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 News NPR

Marumushi.com US top news

Marumushi.com Canada top news

Digg Labs arc

Digg labs stack

Digg labs bigspy

Digg labs swarm

Visual searches - photos Video overview demonstrating how to use the site colors http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual/#random= visual search photos upload photo and find similar

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

AMADIG:Youtube and Amazon

Visual twitter

Tuneglue

musicmesh

Flight Wait: real-time flight conditions on a map

Flight delays on April 1 st at 4:35pm

Wikipedia Vision: anonymous edits to Wikipedia in real-time

For more information Contact Jill Tinsley Available online at: 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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