As part of a redesign of our frontend architecture (code named Merlot), we just launched a new look and feel for www.kosmix.com. While there have been many cosmetic changes, we also have a new application tier serving this UI. We are very excited about this rollout as it provides us the ability to create new visualizations of results and answers. Tell us what you think of these views, what you liked and didn’t like as well as what you would like to see.

One very cool feature that we rolled out is the “Topic Overview” page. This page is a new visualization specifically designed to support Information Surfing. Since we have a categorization of the web, we are able to surface relationships between the query and other potential concepts of interest. We hope that you will find these relationships very interesting as useful as you explore the web for information regarding your query.

Here is an example query for that feature: pain in the left stomach. Notice that on the topic overview page, we have identified that pain in the left stomach is related to conditions such as Appendicitis and Gastritis, procedures such as Gastric Bypass and diagnostic tests such as Endoscopy. I dont think any other search engine provides this kind of information and you will have to use many search queries and read many of the results to surface these relationships.

So we think this is extremely valuable and unique and we would really love to hear back from you on what you feel about this feature. Coming soon will be more features and another blog post to describe our vision to support information surfing.

Posted by admin / December 22, 2006 11:08 am / Permalink / Comments (2) / Trackbacks (0)