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Perennial SearcherPerennial SearcherMay 1, 2008 GrokkerDo you Grok? If you use Ebsco products/database you might . . . that is, if you use the “visual search” feature. According to the company . . . “Grokker’s name is inspired by the 1961 Robert A. Heinlein science fiction classic ‘Stranger in a Strange Land,’ in which Grok is a Martian word meaning to understand something completely. It’s possible to test drive Grokker. Searchers can crawl all 1 or 3 options: Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and Amazon.com. What’s unique about this resources is its hits/results display. Results are displayed in an “outline” view (think clusters, categories, classification). In addition, Grokker features a visual/map display of results. Be forewarned that this tool runs Java! No Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. Leave a comment
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