I love new search engines, especially when they offer something truly different. And CruxLux certainly does. The focus of this search tool is to uncover and visually display discussion and controversy by mapping perspectives visually, and letting users explore the highlighted content via previews.
In this case, a picture is worth about a million words, so here you go. Here's the results page for my search on health care.
Like nodes are posted close together, while content of a different variety or perspective are shown farther away. By moving the magic window around in the inset screen at the top left, you can view all the nodes.
When you click on a node or "crux", you get a preview that looks like this:
Click again and you go to the page you previewed.
CruxLux has other cool features as well. Here's how their web site describes their whole package:
About Us
The world harbors a virtually infinite jumble of ideas and perspectives. Cruxlux helps people navigate and make sense of it all.
Products
Our mission is to support the exploration of ideas. To this end, we so far have released three main interrelated products:
(1) Perspective-based search engine that provides a map of web content arranged by viewpoint,
(2) Debate platform accessible from all across the web that is able to expose the crux of disagreements, and
(3) Unique micropayment system to support bloggers and site administrators.
While what we've built so far is useful, it's just a start. We're quickly working towards a vision where we collect and truly integrate ideas stated by anyone anywhere, ground the public discourse, and provide a financially self-sustaining platform for it.
I'll be anxious to see what else they have in store. Cuz this is truly innovative. And useful for when you want to see a variety of perspectives on a topic...quick like. People, this ain't no Google knockoff!
Thanks for reading, and don't forget to write.
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