nedeľa 26. septembra 2010

Introducing Marquess - a tool for ad-hoc search and navigation

Are you a journalist, analyst or someone who is interested in easy access to various relevant content? There is finally way to let your computer search for you. Try new tool for ad-hoc search and navigation called Marquess

Marquess is available as Mozilla Firefox add-on and can be easily installed into your browser. After few clicks install you can choose to display Marquess panel in the browser window. 


Now you can see the Marquess Bar panel, which contains area for generated navigation links.

The default mode is automatic, so the next page you open will be analyzed and you will gain additional links relevant to the contents of that page. The links area will be filled with important terms found in the text and links that are relevant to these terms.

On the next picture you can see the result of opening a BBC article about West Bank settlers. You are instantly provided with links to recent and relevant news articles and videos about East Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas or Ehud Barak. 

If you are looking for some other terms and links then provided, you can remove some of the terms and automatically obtain next relevant term and related links. If you don't like the feature which automatically gains new terms and links for every opened page, just click the button "Mode: Automatic", and you enter the manual mode. In this mode, you decide which page will be analyzed by clicking the button in the right bottom corner.

There are two more useful features which include direct Wikipedia links and one-click Google search. You can access these features by clicking buttons in the links list. 

You can also select part of the text of a web page and gain links relevant to this text. To do this, simply select part of the text, right-click it and from the context menu select "Send Text To Marquess".

The tool provides an expert mode, in which you gain full control of the search process. This mode requires more attention from the user as it is not automatic. The features of expert mode will be introduced in one of the next articles. Till then, you can try to explore the tool on your own ;)

The add-on is available for download here.

There is a user forum available for Marquess users.

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