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Create a 'TouchGraph this site' bookmarklet
Authored by: mankoff on Feb 14, '05 11:09:11AM
See: http://touchgraph.sourceforge.net/

It appears to be a visual mapping of the web. It is based, among other things, on the Google related: query operator, but is also able to traverse Wikis, and other stuff.

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Create a 'TouchGraph this site' bookmarklet
Authored by: Tony in Ottawa on Feb 14, '05 04:42:20PM
Touchgraph is great way to visualize the google link: directive. Recall Apple's HotSauce (3D Fly through web space). Robin Good has a generic description of the TouchGraph google browser.

Be patient with code. I do find the Java performance on the Mac to be rather slow. There's a Q&A at Apple about applet loading. During my testing of the code, Firefox showed some of the code to be deprecated, and the changes worked fine with Safari, but not with Firefox, so in the end, I left it alone.

Regardless, I hope everyone enjoys visualization how Google links sites!

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Create a 'TouchGraph this site' bookmarklet
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 14, '05 06:09:16PM

I'm not quite clear on what the Google version of TouchGraph does [and the TouchGraph site, as well as the applet's instructions, assume you already know what it's doing -- they don't tell you]. It seems to be finding sites that are "similar", somehow. It's not a map of sites that link to the URL in question, nor of sites that are linked from that URL.

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Create a 'TouchGraph this site' bookmarklet
Authored by: Tony in Ottawa on Feb 15, '05 12:20:03PM

Correction: It seems that the TouchGraph Google Browser uses the related: operator rather than the link: operator.

On doing a mouse over on the Google:related hyperlink at http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html the following info is displayed:
"Graphs can only be generated for sites which have related links on Google."

and, from http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
"The query [related:] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. For instance, [related:www.google.com] will list web pages that are similar to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url.

This functionality is also accessible by clicking on the "Similar Pages" link on Google's main results page, and from the Advanced Search page, under Page Specific Search > Similar."



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