Simple and useful, exactly the way I like ‘em: Cloudlet effectively brings tag-based search to Google and Yahoo in the form of an add-on for the Firefox browser (except for the latest 3.1 beta). That’s about all it does, and it does it well.
You really have to try it before you judge it, but as far as I’m concerned it’s a winner even if experimental and still in beta. It basically inserts a context-aware tag cloud into the traditional search interface to help you navigate through your search queries swiftly and intelligently. You can filter by keyword tags, but also by websites and even domain name extensions, and turning it off is as easy as clicking your mouse. The add-on even works on Google News both for source and location tag clouds, and enables you to filter down by author in Google BlogSearch.
You can watch a demo video here, but I kindly recommend you to turn off sound, unless you’re into Eastern European classical music.
It looks a whole lot like Tweetag, which does the same for searching Twitter, and also reminds me of Quintura, an alternative search engine platform that is centered around tag clouds for navigation.
I’ve been switching back and forth between Chrome and Firefox ever since Google came out with its own browser (it’s all about the speed, baby), but these extensions are exactly what’s stopping me from going with Chrome altogether.
Cloudlet was developed by the International Software & Productivity Engineering Institute (INTSPEI), a research organization with offices in New York and Kiev (Ukraine).
Cool – this works really well.
I have one of these for my email searches, using http://www.taglocity.com and it does help a lot, especially when you need to narrow things down.
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Easy to install, works as advertised, and might even be useful.
My only (very minor) complaint is that it breaks the experimental keyboard shortcut feature from Google Labs.
It’s funny how we have become such an instant gratification world. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as impatient as the next person, but all this time and money spent on allowing us easier and quicker access to the information we are looking for makes you stop and wonder what the heck we did 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, heck 6 months ago!
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Actually, it makes me wonder what we’ll be doing in 6 months, or 10, 20 years from now.
How about tomorrow? I see updates to technology on a daily basis. I suppose there are pluses and minuses to it.
I personally think its garbage… so what it extracts a few keywords… big deal… just simply can’t see the benefit. huuu huuuu
Well, I assume if it works well, then Google can come up with the same implementation very soon…
I can see some benefit in this and I’d love to see Google include this function as experimental. I think it’s not really practical as a FF plugin.
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