http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/ Ramblings about library technology, open source software, and other adventures! Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-38791 rick Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:22:02 +0000 http://blog.ecorrado.us/?p=704#comment-38791 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. 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.

]]> http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-37015 Time to Be Time in Five Years : Beyond Search Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:05:09 +0000 http://blog.ecorrado.us/?p=704#comment-37015 [...] anymore; for instance, EZ2Find.com (French metasearch system), Siderean Software (semantic system), Grokker (content processing), and Oracle’s SES10g (the secure enterprise search system praised by Martin [...] [...] anymore; for instance, EZ2Find.com (French metasearch system), Siderean Software (semantic system), Grokker (content processing), and Oracle’s SES10g (the secure enterprise search system praised by Martin [...]

]]> http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-35803 Edward Corrado (ecorrado) 's status on Tuesday, 01-Sep-09 19:01:01 UTC - Identi.ca Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:01:08 +0000 http://blog.ecorrado.us/?p=704#comment-35803 [...] http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/ a few seconds ago from web [...] [...] http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/ a few seconds ago from web [...]

]]> http://blog.ecorrado.us/2009/09/01/grokker-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-35800 ranti Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:15:17 +0000 http://blog.ecorrado.us/?p=704#comment-35800 Bummer. I happen to like Grokker as well; I still have their desktop application (too bad it no longer works.) Bummer. I happen to like Grokker as well; I still have their desktop application (too bad it no longer works.)

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