Given that today was a wrap up day, two last classes, I learned quite a lot!
Most interestingly, I learned about some of the more interesting search engines on the web.
Lesson 57: TinEye is a great way to either avoid using someone's image without proper credit or find out who is using your image without proper credit.
Though my prof didn't really think of that use, that is ultimately what it's good for. He thought that it was to find similar images, but really it's to find all incidents of that image. It's a really cool tool, but I think it's more of a straight up tool than a search engine.
Lesson 58: Liveplasma. Oh man, liveplasma.
So here's the deal, Liveplasma can search books, movies and most interestingly, music. And it shows you everything it can connect with that. It creates a kind of cloud of linked items. For Music, it apparently compares the notes in order to cluster and connect different bands. For movies, it seems to base it on genre, style, director and actors. For books, it seems to be primarily author based, genre being a secondary characteristic and possibly thematic links as another variable for constructing the clouds.
It's epic, exploratory and amazingly intriguing.
I could look things up all day on Liveplasma!
Some other interesting ones did things like organizing results with images or into shapes. Tag Galaxy makes solar systems of relations and see also references out of concept planets.
I swear I'm not stoned, that is a 100% legitimate description of what the website does.
Don't believe me?
Seriously. Check it out.
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