More Than Just Search Results

Some search engines will help focus your search. After a search topic is entered, you get not only the usual list of results, but also a list of suggested categories to help narrow the topic.

Clusty organizes the top 250-500 search results into subject folders.

Some of the most exciting new search sites provide visual representation of search results. These tools help you narrow your search focus by providing visual representations of categories and search results.

Kartoo is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. KartOO sends your query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them, and then represents them in a series of interactive maps using a proprietary algorithm.

WebBrain lets you search the Web visually, so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text.. Click on the topic you are interested in and WebBrain will center itself on your selection, with related topics branching out around it. Click another topic and the process repeats itself. As you click, related websites appear at the bottom. Selecting one of these sites opens it in a new window so you can easily get back to your area of the WebBrain.

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