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That feature sounds amazing! I tried searching wayback etc but wasn't able to find any more details. Do you happen to know of any screenshots / deeper descripti
by jhy 4mo ago
That feature sounds amazing! I tried searching wayback etc but wasn't able to find any more details. Do you happen to know of any screenshots / deeper descriptions for it?
Perhaps we could nerd snipe Marginalia Search to add it :)
- bsder 4mo agoI remember it being a Java applet with animations, but my memory could be terribly faulty at this point. Following your comments and trying to trail things out, the only thing I can find is a reference to AltaVista LiveTopics. https://dannysullivan.com/why-search-sucks-you-wont-fix-it-the-way-you-think-203 https://dannysullivan.com/why-search-sucks-you-wont-fix-it-t... I suspect what I used was that "GRAPH" button in the AltaVista Refine picture. We might want to archive that image. It seems like the only evidence that this stuff ever existed.
- jhy 4mo agoThanks, AltaVista LiveTopics is a good keyword. I found: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Alta-Vista-LiveTopic-Graph_fig2_247392753 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Alta-Vista-LiveTopic-Gra... which has some different coverage. I did try to archive the blog you linked but unfortunately the owner is blocking it with robots.txt User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: /
- bsder 4mo agoThat hyperbolic tree looks very close to what my faulty memory recalls. I suspect it was a later incarnation that I used.