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Map of Web Content By Perspective
An anonymous reader writes "Cruxlux has a perspective-based search engine up. It provides a map of results laid out by viewpoint. For example, querying 'Obama' shows a map with liberal blog posts, articles, and video clumped together, conservative stuff nearby, and nonpolitical sources farther away. It works for nonpolitical queries too (sports, etc.). It also lets you limit results to certain types of views — you can focus on hot 'Obama' content from a liberal angle, for instance."
It's interesting to see that when you type in "RIAA" almost all content range from blogs that report on the RIAA's losses, to the one that report on how much they hate the RIAA.
They really have no friends anymore.
Now we have another tool to isolate people in their echo chambers!
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
Also known as a progressive upskirt.
I like the concept, it certainly has its uses. And it's long before time that search had new innovations, for something so intrinsically useful and lucrative, there's been almost no progress in search in a decade.
However, these folks need to hire a graphic designer. That is one ugly, cluttered website. Far, far too much information to look at at one time, daunting to say the least. Google had the right idea with their interface. Less is more.
Terrible, hard to type name.
Messy interface. Yellow color scheme?
Small snippets to represent blogs (And I mean small visually, not small number of words).
The inset window blocks much of the search panel.
As far as I can tell, no attempt to group results by domain, that is stacking several relevant blog postings from same blog in adjoint rectangles.
Grade: F-
Please RTFA and then apologize.
Definitely colorful.
That might be useful for around 1% of internet searches. Now you just need to design a feature that cleverly organizes porn to deal with the other 99%.
I guess if you are searching for political/sports information its fine, as that seems to be the only types of blogs in the database. If you search for 'camping' for instance, there's almost no content about camping, and almost everything but a few items in the map are of a political nature. Interesting idea, but only of minimal use to anyone interested in anything other than sports or politics... for the moment anyhow.
You must be new here. Get used to it.
It's also weird that they included uncyclopedia as a source. it would be fine in a normal search engine, but here the results seem to come from newspapers and blogs.
When Geiger counters are outlawed, only mutants will have Geiger counters
... now it has become even more easy to stick one's head in the sand, or up one's own arse depending on preference, than it already was.
I apologize
I was wondering where I was going to get my "hot Obama content from a liberal angle"!
This has to be a new low for Slashdot.
The evidence this is spam/slashvertisement:
And if being obvious spam/slashvertisement weren't bad enough, the summary is basically a giant Obama/McCain troll.
But hey, they managed to keep spelling and grammar mistakes to a minimum, so I guess that's something.
Maybe not
You know, I just realized that before the main content was loaded the page flashed "WE CAN SOLVE THE ULTIMATE CRISIS".
Yeah, this article - and the site - may just be a teeny bit slanted.
I have been looking at this site for a few months and have seen some great changes. They are constantly changing the site, improving it and adding new features. I think the technology they have built has a lot of potential. Keep it up!
When a search for "php" does not list php.net http://www.cruxlux.com/q/php I find it hard to believe in their technology.
Apparently it is supposed to be "smart" regarding politics, but at the same time it can't give a single relevant hit on Mickey Mouse.
OK... maybe there is on or two of those somewhere.
But I kinda like the search engine to give me information relevant to my query.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I'd comment but it's been slashdotted it seems.
So sorry to hear about your dead brain.
...comes up as a ... well, a blank page.
Take that for what it's worth.
Try doing a query other than one of the ones they suggest. Pick something you're particularly interested in or know a lot about. You'll see this thing does pretty much nothing useful.
isn't going for something other then war... I guess it's lucky a few of us have a choice (the morons are still paying for it).
Implementing what she learned from the previous two federal elections and how the internet wascircumventing her propaganda. (I noticed a while back with when huge strokes of google went missing).
Still is no where complete... just stopping by to say hahaha...
Ehm, that UI is a joke, right?
I mean, otherwise it looks like someone tried really, really hard here - and failed completely.
Don't let your site's first impression be a giant popup window that makes them unable to type a search term until they click on "close slideshow".
No offense to the creators of this site, but that's just about the worst user interface I've seen (OK, so maybe there's a little offense in there).
The intuitiveness of "Look what I can do with JavaScript!" Web 2.0 design principles, married to the visual aesthetic of circa 1993 "My cat's Homepage"-type sites.
sic transit gloria mundi
I sure as heck don't want to read a bunch of liberal crap about nobama. You could have picked some better topics.
Think it's only for news stories. TFA should have made that clearer.
yes exactly - TFA didn't say enough. It works good on stuff in the evening news, but not others. Someone upthread mentioned index goes back only 14 days.
worked for me but only on stuff that's both in the news and realy getting bloged up right now. Anything else and iffy. On israel, it actually did give a few clumps, one seemed to be leftist, one was religious, then mostly misselaneous sites. Does what it does.
I love this, but they should release the data. Definitely was surprised by how crazy some of the content was from one of the areas of the Palin graph* *I wont' tell you which one
OTOH, I do enjoy the silence on early Sunday mornings.
So it's no cruxlux for you. Bad WEB 0.9 boy...
It is true that Tom Brokaw's eyes are looking more Chinese with every passing day (not to mention his intellect is waning). He should really seriously consider retirement before anything embarrassing happens (and before the right's equivalent of Michael Moore comes along and rips him a new one).
I noticed it didn't know who Veronika Zemanova was so I told CruxLux about her website. Don't worry, no need to thank me. I've probably funneled about 200,000 horny fatbeards in your sites general direction. :)
Mod parent "out of business."
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So, you're one of the developers of a search engine with a shitty UI and you are now trolling
What made you think that was a good idea? Everyone here are paranoid skeptics (disclosure: myself included). Welcome to the most asinine advertising decision you've ever made. If you wanted this to be successful here, you would have left it alone and let the discussion go unhindered by your trolling. I can't imagine what your other advertising avenues are. Did you start a Facebook group yet?
cruxlux = out of business. Bye. Now get the fuck off my lawn!
If you don't know what you're doing, you can't make mistakes.