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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. RIAA by Exanon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. yes, but... by owlnation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:THIS IS A TROLL STORY!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Please RTFA and then apologize.

  4. Re:not sure how well it works by johnlcallaway · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Without a guide about what the viewpoint is, I didn't find much use in it.

    Search on Cruxlux for 'Obama McCain global warming' and you get a hodgepodge of data back, with no indication what, if any, is relevant and having to dig to find anything that compares the two.

    While Google returned a very concise list of items on the first two pages.

    Sorry Cruxlux ... not convinced I should stop using Google.

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  5. Try typing in Mickey Mouse... by denzacar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  6. One Suggestion by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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".