Day 5: Meta-searching & beyond: clustering

As we start the final day of our search engine seminar, I want to thank our 
panelists Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman, Tara Calishain & Sabrina 
Pacifici.  We greatly appreciate your taking the time from your schedules 
to answer questions for us.

To conclude our look at search engines, let's consider where search 
technology is heading.

One trend that's already with us is changing the grouping and presentation 
of search results to make them easier to grasp.

Vivisimo, www.vivisimo.com, does this by clustering results in categories. 
The category headings appear in the left column of the screen and use a 
file folder structure. (I.e., when you click on a heading name, all the 
associated sub-headings appear below it.) Yesterday Orion Wolff of Vivisimo 
let the list know he was among us. If you're still here, can you give us 
some background in the usefulness and workings of clustering?

Grokker, http://www.groxis.com/service/grok/, which Danny mentioned 
yesterday, creates a splashy visual map of information related to your 
terms. The name is a nod to "grok," a word Robert Heinlein introduced in 
Stranger in a Strange Land, and it means getting a deep and full 
understanding of something. It is not a free service, but an application 
you purchase. There's a free 30-day trial. Its Web plug-in currently works 
with AltaVista, MSN, WiseNut, Fast, Yahoo, and Teoma. If any of you have 
used this, please let us know your experiences with it.

Thanks,

Kathy Biehl
co-moderator, Network-Lawyers



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