Comments on: The Visual Thesaurus, a Dictionary of the English Language http://www.openindex.org/2004/08/04/the-visual-thesaurus-a-dictionary-of-the-english-language/ Whose Internet is it , anyway? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:03:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tom Booth http://www.openindex.org/2004/08/04/the-visual-thesaurus-a-dictionary-of-the-english-language/#comment-9 Tom Booth Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:58:15 +0000 /?p=39#comment-9 Now that was cool. There was a thread in "The Well" some time back where it was stated that this sort of "VISUALIZATION" would be the future in terms of returning search engine results. Imagine the same sort of functionality, but instead of a simple Thesaurus or Dictionary the "visualization" of interconnected ideas would actually end up leading to web sites within the chosen categories rather than just definitions of terms. A kind of visual web of the web itself. A means of seeing how web sites are interrelated rather than just words. Now that was cool.

There was a thread in “The Well” some time back where it was stated that this sort of “VISUALIZATION” would be the future in terms of returning search engine results.

Imagine the same sort of functionality, but instead of a simple Thesaurus or Dictionary the “visualization” of interconnected ideas would actually end up leading to web sites within the chosen categories rather than just definitions of terms.

A kind of visual web of the web itself. A means of seeing how web sites are interrelated rather than just words.

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