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Map of Web Content By Perspective

Posted by timothy on from the imperfect-but-neat dept.

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."

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  1. Re:yes, but... by guha_cruxlux · · Score: 3, Informative

    glad you like the concept by the way. We'll have some neat extensions on it coming out soon.

  2. very young service by Jesse+Rudolph · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:very young service by guha_cruxlux · · Score: 3, Informative

      That's an accurate statement. Because we have limited storage, we're only storing our web index going back 14 days (for the most part), making it ideal at the moment only for current topics in the news (not necessarily politics), either getting for an overview of all angles, or finding neat content from the type of site you like.

      If there were a current scandal with camping, it might be different!

  3. Re:THIS IS A TROLL STORY!! by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 1, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:not sure how well it works by guha_cruxlux · · Score: 2, Informative

    This isn't intended as a general purpose search engine to compete with Google, but more to get a spread of online content about any current topic.

    You might find it useful as a launching point to seeing all the different angles in one shot, which a standard search won't give you, or to get a nice spread of video and articles from a particular type of source, which again standard search isn't built for.

    As for a guide on what view each cluster represents when you don't target the search -- right now, it works best if you use a couple of the biggest sites as landmarks, but we'll be improving them in the coming period.

  5. Re:Not just spam... trolling spam by guha_cruxlux · · Score: 4, Informative

    of course, I did just create this particular account, as I thought it might be useful to respond to comments and answer any questions. Have been very open about who I am to avoid exactly this feeling...