[WEB4LIB] Re: Mooter search engine

[Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt]

I have been sifting through all forms of Web information visualisations
(and non-Web ones too) for the last six years or so, and the only ones
which have, I think, a solid basis for giving visual context and being
eventually useful are the Enhanced Thumbnails from the former Xerox
PARC (based on research by Allison Woodruff) and the favicons suggested
(but never implemented on enough sites) by Internet Explorer.  The
problem is that you really need a system based on the two since they
are complementary.  Because there is no incentive to force or create
such a combination I have the impression we are a long way off form
visualisations that are more than just "cool".

See:
http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/enhancedthumbnails/

Alain Vaillancourt


 


 --- Brandon Dennis <bdennis at shreve-lib.org> a écrit : 
> I don't know.  As potentially "neat" as that is.  It seems
> distracting
> and unnecessary to me.  It's not really freeform information flow
> (ala
> Minority Report), but it's also not like a 3D hologram (ala Matrix
> Revolutions white room).
>  
> I like my searches to either be amazingly futuristic, or simple text.
> Anything in-between is just extra nonsense I have to sort through.
>  
> bd
>  
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Stephen Shaw [mailto:SSHAW at COLEMAN.PVAM.EDU] 
> Sent: Fri 11/19/2004 11:39 AM 
> To: Multiple recipients of list 
> Cc: 
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Mooter search engine
> 
> another good example of this is Web Brain:
> 
> http://www.webbrain.com/html/default_win.html
> 
> 
> 
>  

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