Creative Search Tools
December 13, 2006
I’ve recently stumbled upon a couple of cool search sites and I thought I’d share.
The first one is a related tag browser for Flickr. You enter a tag, say shoes for example, and it will display a list of pictures from all over Flickr with a tag “shoes”. If you move your mouse from the center of the screen, it will pan out and give you a list of the other tags from the currently displayed pictures. Pretty slick. I could screw around on here for hours with all of the quality photoblogging going on over at Fickr.
Amazon Related Purchase Search
The second is a different take on the related purchase feature at Amazon.com. It allows you to enter a keyword and then searches for books including your search criteria in their keywords. Now comes the fun part. As it finds matches to your search criteria, it connects books which are on each others’ “You might also be interested in these products” lists. The end result is this really cool, interactive spider web of related books. Bonus points for old school sound effects as well.
Good to have you back Shawn