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New Search Engine Encourages Information Exploration

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday June 17 2015, @11:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the dmoz.org-is-still-around dept.

AnonTechie writes:

It's been 25 years since a group of students introduced Archie, the world's first Internet search engine. Since then, search engines have become smarter, faster, and more personalized. Their objectives, however, have remained mostly the same.

"What people use search engines for is what search engines are made for," said Douglas Downey, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science. "Search engines are very good at finding specific Web pages. We wanted to design a search engine that does something very different — one that helps you explore concepts."

On June 16, Downey and his team launched a beta version of Atlasify, a new search engine that does more than respond to queries. It invites users to explore new concepts by automatically generating cartographic "atlases" about subjects of interest. The project is a collaboration with University of Minnesota assistant professor Brent Hecht, who earned his PhD from the McCormick School of Engineering.

http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2015/06/atlasify-search-using-maps.html

[Related]: Blog about Atlasify

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:32AM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:32AM (#197615) Journal

    You can spoof your OS and Browser. I use the add-on "User Agent Overrider" as it's simple to use and has various options for Linux, Windows, MAC, Android, and iOS user agents. I ran into this issue when trying to get pipelight to work. Here's a how to link from the pipelight people. http://pipelight.net/cms/installation-user-agent.html [pipelight.net]

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:43AM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:43AM (#197622) Journal

    'heh, I looked at the pipelight page again and saw something that might make the difference. Some things like Unity3D skip over the User Agent stuff and can actually tell what OS you are using anyway. They fixed that by adding a general.platform.override string Win32 to Firefox.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:46AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:46AM (#197626) Journal

    MechanicJay said much the same thing, and specifically stated that the addon works with Pale Moon - thanks to both of you, I'm browsing the site now!