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Juice – the intelligent Firefox plugin
As outlined in my presentation on the semantic web, a few tools are giving us a glimpse of how intelligent applications are changing search tools allowing us to move away from the ’search term’ engine model of research. I described the Firefox plugin ClearForest Gnosis and Headupas two examples. Another recent launch demonstrates the power of these intelligent search tools that let you access linked content without you having to navigate away from the pages you are viewing. Juice is a Firefox plugin that allows you to access information linked to a term you are interested in. Juice searchers for reference material, movies, news and pictures and presents the content clearly in a separate Firefox column. All you have to do is highlight your term and drag into the column. You can switch Juice on or off easily by using a simple button on your browser bar. I accessed suprisingly relevant content by testing Juice using two potentially tricky terms – ‘Sirius Star’ and ‘Antony Gormley’.
While Gnosis indicates how intelligent search using language processing can work, Juice takes the concept to the next level. For a quick introduction see the Juice webcast:
Juice’s rocking webcast from Linkool Labs on Vimeo.
Tags: ClearForest, ClearForest Ltd, intelligent applications, intelligent search tools, intelligent search using language processing, Linkool Labs, search term, search tools, semantic web Discussion
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We’re very happy you liked our plugin and look forward to sharing new features with you in the beginning of 2009. If you have any comments on the user experience, do feel free to get in touch, as we continuously work on improving the user experience.