Grokker Search Engine Provides Visual Search Results

KeatonMill writes "The New York Times (as always, free registration) ran this article about a new search engine, called Grokker, created by a company called Groxis. Grokker builds a map of content catagories using metadata. So far, it is used in the Amazon.com online catalog and the Northern Light search engine. Groxis is also developing a version to use to search your own computer."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Seen similar tech, but first wide app like this.

[bildstorm]

I saw some of the similar kinds of sorting of metadata with stuff from YellowBrix and LingoMotors.

I guess, given my background, I'd be interested to see how this works in the bigger arena and if they'll be doing widescale support of the PRISM and SCORM standards.

Anybody out there get to really play with this on the back end?

Another interesting visual/mapping search engine:

[Artifice_Eternity]

Kartoo.com

Note: Flash required.

Re:YASE

[bildstorm]

Yes we do.

This program, and several similar, allow you to serious organise content. Google is nice on a boolean search, but not for related content type searches.

I'm pretty good at doing searches with Google, but having tried some of this stuff out, it's AMAZING for doing research. A lot of companies are deriving their technology from intelligence agencies.

What's new about this?

[Aanallein]

Kartoo (previously mentioned here) has been doing visual search results for quite a while already; I'd even say that's the most useful application of Flash that I've ever seen.

Re:YASE

[abiogenesis]

Try Google sets, you'll be amazed.

Re:Google is going downhill

[rgmoore]

I'm no expert on law by any means, but doesn't a website have to follow the laws in the country where its server is physically located?

Legally, the question seems to be rather murky. There are some cases where it's clear that you have to obey more than one set of laws. If you're selling products to a country other than where you're located you still have to obey their laws, the same way that you'd have to if you sold their by mail or telephone order. If you're just providing information gratis, the answer seems to be more questionable. Certainly there are a lot of countries that claim that you have to obey their laws if you want to serve web pages to people there.

Practially, you may have to obey the laws of countries other than the one where your servers are located because they can make things very unpleasant for you if you don't. If you want to do business in country X, you have to listen to what they tell you, or they're likely to do nasty things like seize any assets you have in there or arrest your employees when they visit. That may not be a big problem for some countries- Google probably doesn't do much business with North Korea, and their employees probably don't visit there very often- but with places like the EU this is likely to be a problem.