New Firefox semantic web app offers juicy search
Category: Internet Trends
November 6th 08, 08:50
A new add-on for the Firefox 3 browser that allows users to make instant searches based on the text they are reading has been described as "a worthwhile addition" by internet blog ReadWriteWeb.
Juice, developed by Beijing-based Linkool Labs, is a semantic web browser plug-in that automatically conducts searches whenever the user highlights a section of text and drags it slightly.
Text and multimedia search results appear in a sidebar, meaning that users do not have to leave the web page they are on to carry out queries. Searches can also be made in the conventionally way by typing terms into a search box.
Results are pulled from Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and a range of other websites and services, according to Rick Turoczy of ReadWriteWeb.
He explained that Juice appears to work better than other semantic web applications by working with smaller chunks of data rather than attempting to deal with vast quantities of information.
"Juice seems to avoid some of the more traditional stumbling blocks of semantic apps by taking a very top-down approach focused on a distinct data set ... Smaller chunks of data allow Juice to return more compelling results," he said.
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