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Christophe ICD on 08 Apr 10"SearchWeb is a tool for finding BBC content by generating a tree of links to relevant pages throughout the site. This system complements the BBC ranked-list search by enabling users to see the context and structure of a large number of results simultaneously, and also by drilling down for results in specific sections of the site.\n\nThe form of the visualisation is a navigable tree of web page nodes, with the BBC homepage at the centre and the result URLs forming branches around it. The main branches represent sections of the BBC site such as News or Learning, and are colour coded to show the proportionate number of results for each area.\nSearchWeb was developed in ActionScript3, using the Polygonal 'AS3 Data Structures For Game Developers' libraries http://lab.polygonal.de/ds/\nWe hope to release the source code for this project. We will make an announcement on the blog if we do so."