Jason Bunyan, journalist and new media consultant, interviewed Laurent Baleydier to discuss the relation between the different types of intelligence and search engine design, please visit KartOO: Mapping Search Intuitively, for the full article.
Abundance Actualité, the French SEO and SE online magazine launched a new section featuring in real-time the e-reputation (also known as online reputation and web reputation) of the top search engines in France; the tool is based on a text mining system developed by Kartoo Technologies.
Abondance.com launched the new section “Figures”, featuring relevant statistics on the information search market, the traffic from different search engines in France and United States, among others. The section will also present relevant data on the subject, as new studies emerge.
This new section will present the e-reputation of the top search engines in France in real-time: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Exalead, Ask.com and Kartoo. Based on a text mining technology developed by Kartoo, the tool analyzes online content and determines its negative, positive or neutral tendency; a script reviews the news from different French websites and analyzes the content in real-time, then, it assigns a score on the “tone” for each search engine.
The tool is based on dictionaries that weigh up words. For instance, a word like ‘catastrophe’ which has a strong negative connotation and no ambiguity, has a very negative weight, while neutral or polisemic words have no weight. According to the word’s weight –including negatives-, the tool calculates the document’s scores: number of positive, negative or neutral words; weighs up positive and negative words; and defines overall weighting, among others.
Each text has a “signature” that can be analyzed. For example, it is possible to identify a text that particularly virulent by considering the amount of words with heavy weighting. The added value of Kartoo’s system is that the dictionary is optimized: the score for each word can be adjusted by analyzing a page that defines this word (e.g. a search engine results or a definition in an encyclopedia), which allows to build a dictionary based on a particular context for more accuracy.”
Olivier Andrieu
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There are so many websites for job and internship search that is difficult to decide where to post our CV or resume, especially if it is the first time we are looking for a professional opportunity or we want to change careers. Most of the time, we will use the popular recruitment websites with hope “they” will find us, which is very unlikely considering the massive amount of candidacies companies receive nowadays. Thus, an option is to use Kartoo to find easily job related websites grouped by your target industry and competencies. For instance, you can try “information technology + java + job” and the map will display the most relevant websites on the field like seeker.dice.com, informationtechnologycrossing.com, theitwjob.com, etc. Additionally, keywords on the map such as programmer, engineer, oracle or certification can help specify your search query; the left side bar also provides subtopics so you can explore the different terms and learn more about the sector. You may also select the e-trend option to review the website’s positive or negative online reputation.
For those seeking new ventures, for example moving out of the city to work in a farm, the first step is to explore the industry and define the desired job. You can search “agriculture industry + jobs” to get familiarized with the different career paths. Then using the left side bar, you can navigate between the proposed topics to learn about the agriculture sector, opportunities or locations, as well as explore the map of results to see the relation among these terms; these features will help you identify job websites that match your interests. As you narrow the list of possibilities, you can also add other keywords like location or training to complement your search.
The advantage of visualizing your results is that if you are not familiar with job hunting and/or the industry, the map can guide you towards the key information and with the e-reputation tool you can distinguish which websites stand out. To learn more about creative ways to search for jobs, we recommend you Kevin’s Donlin “4 ‘Weird’ Ways to Find a Job”.
KartOO has been attracting the attention of bloggers and twitter users all over the world in the past weeks. The Portail Expres Blog, Abondance actualité and Carto Management reviewed KartOO.com new look, which has an improved interface and web reputation barometer.
On their side, Geeker, Catpointzero.com in France, Suchmaschinen Datenbank in Germany, Pixelfreund in Switzerland Pakesepas.net and RFS Digital in Spain, Aquihayalgo and Mimododever in Peru cited KartOO.com on their review of alternative search engines. Also, the Competitive Intelligence for Russian Business blog included an interesting perspective about online search, encouraging users to try different tools like cluster search engines. Additionally, we found other interesting comments on Australian’s blog Ponderings through the Haze , whose author expressed “I’ve now had a little play around with Dogpile, and KarTOO (which is so unique with its use of icons – think I’m a visual learner) and I will definitely be using them more in the future”.
These stories consider a very interesting point discussed on Alternatives to Bing and Google; using alternative search engines involves also re-framing the way we think about searching and it may turn out, one of the options will be more suitable to our type of intelligence and personal skills. Some of us we get lost in long text lists but we are at ease with diagrams, charts, colors, icons and maps. At the same time, some people can find all these graphic elements hard to follow.
If you would like to know more about visualization and search engines, we recommend you Inf@Vis! article Visual Search Engines, were the author describes its principles and how they are influencing the web, considering nearly 70% of web users use a search engine as their entry point and the way results are displayed is becoming increasingly important.
The news on “3D Perspectives” (click on the link for the full article)By Oleg on July 9, 2009
“I am always looking for innovative ways to explore information – product models, engineering information, visualization etc. If a picture is worth a thousand words, visualizing your search results can significantly improve your ability to find relevant information. One of the challenges in today’s information universe is to find relevant results. Instead of a long list of titles, URLs, Part and Document Numbers, visual search engines deliver rich results presentations, often visually connected to related search terms.
I’ve been looking around for some examples of visual search engines and I’d like to share these results with you. Even if most of the examples are not connected to what we expect to see in our PDM and PLM systems, I hope they will give you some ideas about how we can potentially improve our ability to search for data.
I conducted my own research and tried to use some of these visual search engines. Most of them explore web information, Wikipedia, Amazon books and some other information on the Web. My test case was to search for Product Lifecycle Management and see if I can better find results by using these engines. So, below you can see the results and short explanations related to visual search engines I tested.
KartOO is a Web-based visual search engine that can search the Web, images, videos and Wikipedia entries. Using Google and Yahoo! search engines, KartOO allows you to create a visual map where related results are linked between them.“