[Sigia-l] Quintura

[David Malouf]

oh! is this in itself compelling enough to use? I doubt it!

-- dave


On 2/27/07, David Malouf <dave.ixd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see it solving the problem associated with the narrowness (and
> sometimes broadness) of what we type into a search engine.
>
> The system seems to bring a thesaurus support mechanism into doing
> searches. So if I type "house" it allows me to choose synonyms based
> on "closeness" of meaning which are visually presented based on
> distance as facets for the initial search I typed into the text field.
>
> It assumes that when I type house I may also want to see results for
> "home", "building" "cape cod" " single story ranch" "dwelling" "real
> estate" etc.
>
> Are there other ways to visualize this? Maybe. I find this to be a bit
> different than just pure faceted search ala Flamenco or Vivisimo (sp?)
> b/c it adds the element of a thesaurus and turns those synonyms into a
> new level of facets. What would be interesting is to layer both the
> metadata/content facets with the thesaurus facets and churn out a
> collection of results that way, maybe adding a layer of depth ala the
> "visual thesaurus" that this doesn't visualize nearly as well.
>
> I'm assuming the larger a word/phrase is the more results it has.
>
> -- dave
>
> On 2/26/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > What problem does this solve?
> >
> > <http://www.quintura.com>
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