I had heard about Grokker before but hadn’t played with it until a colleague I greatly admire sent me the link to the Grokker search for my name.
I later played with it for hours like a little kid doing every kind of search I could think of – the way Grokker displays search results and their relationships in a visual format works more intuitively then getting a list of links back, and as such can find information in places you never knew existed.
In an article posted at Search Engine Watch Chris Sherman talks more about
Visualizing Yahoo Search Results, saying “Grokker, a visual search tool that clusters related search results together in conceptually related categories, is now available in an online version, free of charge….
I Grok displays up to 160 results from the Yahoo index, more than the 100 maximum you can get from Yahoo itself on a single page. Since these results are grouped in topics, rather than presented in a linear list, you often see results that you might otherwise miss.”
It is jam packed, with features that I apparently missed even after fiddling with it. It can give you a new view of the search engine research you view, so read the article, then give it a whirl.
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