Grokker gone :-( 2009 September 1
We received an e-mail from Binghamton University Libraries has been one of the few Academic Libraries using Grokker for visual search of scholarly materials. Binghamton began collaborating with Groxis on the project in Fall 2004 and went live in January 2005 (more than 3 years before I arrived here). Since starting at Binghamton, I have really liked the visual search interface it provides and used it rather often. It is not to say I don’t like our other federated search product, Metalib, I do and in many ways it was better. However, they both had the strength and weaknesses and I will miss the visual result sets from Grokker.
For more information, see Groxis CEO Randy Marcinfo’s comment about the financial situation of Groxis on Steve Arnold’s Beyond Search Web log.
Bummer. I happen to like Grokker as well; I still have their desktop application (too bad it no longer works.)
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I found Grokker when it first came online, that coincided with my work on my graduates theses. I was able to get a grant to get the more powerful subscription use (college subscription). It made researching so easy and functional. Afterall, companies use the global connections with brief descriptors as opposed to lenghty pages of redundant sites and little info as to when an article was written and possible biases by the author, that you do on a separate tab. TO many people they did not like the unfamiliarity with the results page. Clusty is probably the closest and it has gone down hill in the past few years.