Grokker

Do you Grok? If you use Ebsco products/database you might . . . that is, if you use the “visual search” feature. According to the company . . .

“Grokker’s name is inspired by the 1961 Robert A. Heinlein science fiction classic ‘Stranger in a Strange Land,’ in which Grok is a Martian word meaning to understand something completely.

It’s possible to test drive Grokker. Searchers can crawl all 1 or 3 options: Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and Amazon.com.

What’s unique about this resources is its hits/results display. Results are displayed in an “outline” view (think clusters, categories, classification). In addition, Grokker features a visual/map display of results.

Be forewarned that this tool runs Java!

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Brian Smith McCallum, information and knowledge seeker, treads water and still attempts to throw you a lifepreserver in the information maelstrom, highlighting developments in the arena of searching and finding on the Web. He writes for CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research.
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