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posted by Editor on Tuesday February 19, @02:11PM
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VisIT is a graphical front end to search engines that enables users to view more information, more quickly than the pages of lists that search engines normally display. VisIT allows queries to be submitted to any of eight search engines (or all eight search engines at once). Instead of the ten or so hits per page that most search engines reveal, VisIT's interface shows search results in a graphical search space that allows users to quickly scan hundred of hits at once. Each hit is shown as a icon of a page within its site along with other, non-hit pages. Arrows are drawn showing who is referencing whom in the search space. If numerous pages reference a site, the user knows that it's probably worth a look. The VisIT interface resides in its own window, and when the user clicks on a page icon, their regular browser window updates (or, by placing a mouse over any page icon, a pop up box appears with text from the actual page, enabling the user to determine if it's a page they want to visit or not, without actually clicking on it). VisIT also has navigational support, which has been shown to make searches more efficient. The tool is written in Java, and can be downloaded free (registration required).
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