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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."
Hi, I'm one of the two guys who built Cruxlux. Yes, you could use it to isolate in your echo chamber, but really one of our hopes is that it can help break those walls down. If you don't specify a site, it will show you a cloud of all content, so you can see all angles on the story at a single view, not just one. Also, there's a debate platform there you might fine interesting.
it seems to do quite well for results but the interface is terrible on a small screen. useless crap on the page when i am trying to look at the results. I don't
mind having to scroll up and down to see more results currently its like trying to look at a room through a letterbox. the results window needs to be bigger.
I don't mind the additions and suggestions dotted round the side before i search after they need to be moved or removed underneath would be ok.
I also couldn't find a way to open the results it would be preferable to open a link to the actual page in fact open several pages even.
The colors had no meaning to me I need to know what i am looking at.
if the colors classify the results as type e.g blogs forums wiki commercial vendor ect. i'd like a key to the colors.
biggest issue really was being unable to get at the results in any useful way.
one part sentence seemed to be all i could see.
on the otherhand the core idea looks good.
A pet hate of mine with google is the inability to seperate a search for a product from a search for information about a product also no way to filter out all the agregation sites which just say you can buy x here here and here and often x is y and not what i am looking for.
search is promising , results awful.
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