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This site produces a browsable tree of related info if you enter a keyword
- uaygsfdbzf 13y agowow. The best use i found is if you know something of a kind and want to find something like it.
- rainbowgarden 13y agoit's fun to browse through. I started with "India", ended up at Charlie Sheen ..
- alan_cx 13y agoQuite possibly I don't understand what its doing or why, but I entered the word "stylus", meaning the needle on a turntable, and I got an opening suggestion of "writing implements", and the tree related only to that. So, unfortunately for me a bit of a fail. Like I say, perhaps I missed the point.
- IanCal 13y agoI assume it didn't have that meaning in whatever database it's using. Writing implements is a valid interpretation at least. It does seem to do disambiguation if you search for the classic 'pitch'. It's just a fun way of walking from one concept to another, like browsing Wikipedia and ending up miles from where you started.
- slashdotaccount 13y agowith what i understand, the idea here is to basically start from somewhere, tread a path and get 'lost' somewhere else or into something. It's fun to walk through i guess. What i liked is - now, i tried the word "stylus" like you did, but misspelled it as 'stylis'. it gave auto-correct suggestion - did you mean 'stylus'. good for a small site, i think.
- anigbrowl 13y agoIn fairness, the writing implement definition was around for a few thousand years before the invention of record players. Try 'vinyl stylus' - you're not restricted to single words.
- captn3m0 13y agoI'm not sure but it seems to use the category pages on the wikipedia pages to show you the tree.
- fenollp 13y agoYou could maybe couple that with links found with wikipedia.org/wiki/*_(disambiguation) results
- hsmyers 13y agoGood start but a little shallow. Try 'Tolkien' or 'Lord of the Rings'...
- obphious 13y agoInteresting visualization -- perhaps having a link to the wikipedia page for each item or using an iframe to display the wikipedia page would make it a bit more useful.
- uaygsfdbzf 13y agoalt+click is going to the wikipedia page
- pepsi 13y agoThis reminds me of "Nested" from Orteil, the creator of Cookie Clicker. http://orteil.dashnet.org/nested http://orteil.dashnet.org/nested
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- mherdeg 13y agoThis is very cuil!
- chinpokomon 13y agoNice. I thought Cuil had some interesting things they were doing.
- roryokane 13y agoPerhaps this uses DBpedia (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/About http://wiki.dbpedia.org/About)? This is similar to the site Freebase (http://www.freebase.com/ http://www.freebase.com/), which has a lot more data. Example node: India (http://www.freebase.com/m/03rk0 http://www.freebase.com/m/03rk0).
- PaulHoule 13y agoThis definitely is based on Wikipedia categories, which can be extracted from DBpedia.
- ihenriksen 13y agoI suspect it uses DBPedia too. Me like :) This could really be something useful, personally Wolfram Alpha is way too noisy information-wise for me to use.
- waterlion 13y agoReally impressed with results for words like 'twirling', 'homoiconicity', 'ferromagnetic', 'mahler'. Unimpressed by 'sandwiches', which surprised me.
- rainbowgarden 13y ago'sandwich' gives a great result. there is some song called sandwiches and it's taking that into context. may be looking for the closest match of the given word.
- anigbrowl 13y agoCould use another few iterations of the interface (I don't like the way the lists vanish right after they appear), but the concept and execution are first rate. I will be making regular use of this. Most semantic-web-like thing I've seen so far this year.
- maplesyrup87 13y agoi like the way we could wander around :)
- unhappyhippie 13y agoFor almost all of my queries, this is just giving me the list of "categories" on the corresponding wikipedia page, leaving out the wiki-specific ones such as " Articles with Open Directory Project links", etc. Clicking the categories just opens the listings on the corresponding Wikipedia category page.
- vonuebelgarten 13y agoThis site also summarizes what I hate in the current webdesign trends: broken back button and spurious event handlers attached to the not-quite-linky-links.
- timpattinson 13y agoDid we kill it? Not working for me in Firefox.
- coldcode 13y agoThere are other platforms that don't have alt keys or where control click is a second mouse button.
- rebekacarleback 13y agooh! well lots of data here. good one
- dancecodes 13y agoLooks good for effective and refine search results.
- jamessb 13y agoAnnoyingly, the contextual menu makes it impossible to open the wikipedia articles in new tabs. One solution would to have actual links (either text or icons) after each title.
- vdm 13y agoNice idea. The "Explore " text is unnecessary spam. As is the fact that they are not real links.
- raihukonen 13y agoI liked the idea. it's information travel.