Search Cloud

By Mark on Monday 13 June 2005 at 16:53

There's a big debate going on in web development circles at the moment about Tag Clouds. They're basically a way of visualising the most common occurrences of a topic within a load of content, whether that be a group of weblogs, or a set of Flickr photos.

A lot of people think they're just another design trend which doesn't serve any real purpose, while others feel that there's something we can use in there.

Anyway, as another of my little experiments, I've built one, which you can access here (and from the main navigation). It basically shows all the words people have used to get to this site (and Eclectica) via search engines, sized and coloured by frequency. This data is pulled directly from SelectStats, the statistics platform I built at WebSelect, which runs each night to pull in the information from the site's server log files.

There's some 'interesting' ones in there, for sure...

1 comment:

On Monday 13 June 2005 at 21:37, Matt said:

Like it. It's much easier to get an idea of what's going on, rather than having to interpret a graph, but even though there's no numbers it's still reasonably quantitative.

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