Type in a search term and your results come back coded by readability level The name "Twurdy" comes from a play on words with the question "Too Wordy?". The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.
Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.
oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen. Flash required so ipad unfriendly
OSKOPE
oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen.
"Voice Search provides a method to Search by speaking. For example, just click on the microphone and say "kittens" to Search for kittens. If you specifically want pictures of kittens, say "google images kittens". Want to learn more about World War II? Say "wikipedia world war two". "
"is a search engine for creative commons photos, located in Vancouver, BC. They aim to be a community for designers, developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better, easier access to license-specific media on the web. This is a single integrated search, allowing users to bookmark their photos with private and public tags, and increasingly we will be offering advanced searching options, rating systems and other tools."
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Twitter #analytics and much more...
Get detailed and visual analytics on anyone's tweets, retweets, replies, mentions, hashtags...
Browse, search, filter and get insights on the people you follow and those who follow you
Monitor your interactions with fellow users of Twitter: mentions, retweets, favorites...
Backup/export any user's tweets to an Excel spreadsheet in just one click
Monitor tweets from your favorite users, lists and keyword searches
Find out easily those you follow but don't follow you back
Easily add & remove people you follow to your lists
Get the list of the followers you don't follow back
Add and remove people in batch to your lists
Browse, search, filter and sort your lists
Track clicks on the links in your tweets
And much more..."
You may have heard of Wolfram Alpha, which is a "computational knowledge engine." That makes it sound a bit scary, but it's a great tool once you can wrap your head around it.
Apple's Siri uses Wolfram Alpha for 25% of its searches. You can leverage that magic and put Wolfram Alpha to work for you - the empty search box on its homepage holds endless possibilities.
"Here is where you can explore a wide range of Google Search features. You can find different categories, such as ReSearch or Fast Facts, to find new ways to Search for information and get answers. Go ahead and start exploring. "
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most "interesting" Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our Piximilar visual search technology you can search the collection by colour. Check out the FAQ. Have feedback?
We first featured Cooliris nearly three years ago, when it was still called PicLens. This fantastic free browser plugin offers an image search interface like no other. It works on the expected image search platforms - Google, Flickr, etc. - but we particularly like its use on Facebook, where the native image browsing is lacking at best.
RETRIEVR
Another blast from pickings past, retrievr is an experimental image search tool that uses color recognition to retrieve Flickr images that reflect the spatial color arrangement of a digital sketch you draw on a canvas.
What's that? The latest dance move from Brazil? No. It just means using AND, OR, or NOT in your searches. Your research will go much faster if you can use a Boolean operator.
So, let your fingers do the dancing by using AND, OR, or NOT to improve your search results.