Anacubis Unveils Blended Google, Amazon Search

Anacubis has launched a visual application that blends content from Amazon and Google. It's available at http://www.anacubis.com/amazondemo ; you'll need to use IE and have Java for this to work.

Once you've visited the site and launched the demo (which will take a moment or two) you'll have a new Window with a Java applet in it. You'll also have a search box at the top of the screen which searches Amazon. You can search everything or you can search a category. Enter a search and hit enter ("cow" works nicely as a search.) You'll get a set of results on the page. Left click on an item to center on the thing you want to concentrate on. Then right click on it -- and the fun begins!

When you right-click on an item, you're given a menu that allows you to choose see other work by that same author, search for the book on Amazon, see what other people who bought that book also bought, view book properties, and search for that book on Google (you can also buy the book from Amazon via this Web site. Commissions for items bought through this site will go to charity.) When you search for the item on Google, you spawn a little cloud of Web sites which mention the books. For each of THOSE sites you can view similar sites and linked sites, and on and on.

I like these visualization programs, though I think you'll have to play around for a while to get a real sense of how it works. Interesting.

Posted to Search Engines-Google