Thursday, September 17, 2009

Ever Used the Google Wonderwheel ?


A few weeks ago I discovered a cool new search feature on Google called the Wonder Wheel. If you have come across and tried Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping techniques you can see the similarities.


In case you have never heard of Mind Mapping, what the wheel does is to associate a host of different items to your search term and by clicking on different parts of the wheel you can keep drilling into more items.


I have to say - words can;t quite match the experience so go try it out.
Put in a search word into the google search tool bar and once you get the results, expand on the little + which says Web options and towards the bottom under Standard View, you will see Wonder Wheel. Click on it and voila - some cool stuff.


The instructions are listed on google.s website. Check out using the link below


http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/google-wonder-wheel-step-by-step


Have fun !!!

3 comments:

  1. I love the Wonder Wheel!. It's not only a great
    feature, it's got a great story behind it.

    The idea comes from Jon Klienberg of Cornell who had
    the concept of "Hubs" and "Authorities" back in 1999
    when Brin and Page where developing PageRank (they
    were aware of each other at the time and cited each
    others papers).

    Interestingly, both concepts were developed concurrently with Network Theory ( Kleinberg and
    Network Theorist Duncan Watts were at Cornell and
    collaborated).

    You can read more about it here: http://www.digitaltonto.com/archives/427

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  2. I love the Wonder Wheel!. It's not only a great
    feature, it's got a great story behind it.

    The idea comes from Jon Klienberg of Cornell who had
    the concept of "Hubs" and "Authorities" back in 1999
    when Brin and Page where developing PageRank (they
    were aware of each other at the time and cited each
    others papers).

    Interestingly, both concepts were developed concurrently with Network Theory ( Kleinberg and
    Network Theorist Duncan Watts were at Cornell and
    collaborated).

    You can read more about it here: http://www.digitaltonto.com/archives/427

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  3. Thanks Greg for the additional insight on the history behind the development of the wheel.

    It is a great feature and I love using it :-)

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