May 17th, 2009 by Cathy Oxley and tagged flickr, images, photos, rotate, search engines, sphere
Tag Galaxy, one of the Flickr Tools, is a unique visual search engine which searches images from Flickr, then brings each category up like a series of planets rotating around a sun.
If you click on one of the rotating ‘planets’, this will add extra terms to your search and reduce the number of photos in [...]
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December 3rd, 2008 by Cathy Oxley and tagged cactisearch, clusty, grokker, kartoo, PPT, search engines, searchme
If you would like to show your students some different search engines to Google, have a look at these:
Kartoo: This search engine shows reults visually in the form of a map. When you run your mouse over various parts of the map, different links are highlighted to show the relationships between different search results. This [...]
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