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Filed under Lab on October 9, 2006 by Chris LoSacco

Search Clouds

While looking for information about the Nintendo Wii he had just preordered, Joel Nagy found himself running across a growing number of search results that didn't have the facts he wanted. Instead, he got back articles talking about comparisons or previews. What to do when you get pages about the PS3 or Xbox when you're looking for the Wii? Search clouds provide an interesting solution.

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I think you can get something very similar using faceted search results.

Posted on October 10, 2006 9:37 AM by Rafael Sidi

For another interesting take on search clouds, check out my tags implementation on my site (http://neurokinetikz.com). You can filter tags by content type, category, search term, date, user, & creative commons license.

Posted on October 17, 2006 10:58 AM by neurokinetikz

Agreed- metadata helps. Now to the more realistic question for search engines: Where would they place their ads?

Posted on November 19, 2006 11:08 PM by Ariel

http://www.tocloud.com/ provides a pretty neat place to look at how a search cloud for your website would look like.

Posted on April 1, 2008 8:06 AM by Nitin Reddy

@nittin

Is this “cloud of clouders” a tag cloud or a keyword cloud? I think it’s neither. Because, tag clouds are based on tagging while keyword clouds are based on converting of text within a page, article or book.

Posted on June 14, 2008 3:50 AM by Jo Presse

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