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Visueel sociale verbanden leggen met Mapper

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Op Alt Search Engines vond ik een schitterende tool: NNDB Mapper. Deze tool doet een beetje denken aan They Rule (waar ik in 2006 nogal lyrisch over schreef) maar heeft uitgebreidere mogelijkheden.
Het werkt vrij eenvoudig: je zoekt op de naam van een persoon, organisatie, bedrijf, band, film of televisieprogramma en de zoekmachine geeft je een […]

…and now for something completely different

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Welcome to the NNDB MAPPER!

The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore visually by graphing the connections between people and more.

After clicking the link above, select option A

Search for the Movie “Serenity” and then expand the nodes to connect it to the TV show “Firefly”

Another interesting way of searching visually with a map in […]

Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A review by ReadWriteWeb’s Josh Catone.
According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It’s not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it’s just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming. According to […]

Pipl.com - Top dog for people-snooping

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Original Post by slewfootsnoop: Tips, tricks and sources for journalists doing online research

I had a look at Pipl for the first time the other day – and happy news! It’s now my favourite people finder – its like yoname on steroids. Where yoname only lets you search for people across social networks (and […]

Topicle - the search engine community

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

From their site: “At Topicle, our goal is to enable users to easily find more relevant information on the Internet, with you - the Topicle community - as experts. We want to generate more precise and useful search results with sources recommended by humans than solely with computer-generated algorithms.”
With Topicle, you can create a […]

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