Search Basics

Searching on Cluuz is easy. Type one or more search terms (the words or phrase that best describe the information you want to find) into the search box and hit the 'Enter' key or click on the Cluuz Search button.

You can use all the standard search techniques used by traditional search engines such as boolean operators (eg. AND) as well as quotes (eg. "hot dogs") to be more specific with your search.

Default options will bring back results in the 'result wall' format with a chart. Here is what the result wall looks like for search for 'dogs':

The first brick in the wall is already selected. The results for that brick look like this:

You can click on another brick in the wall ;) to see other results brought back.

The Cluuz search engine is different from traditional search engines in that we don't only show the links to result pages but we also show entities (people, companies, organization, phone numbers, concepts, etc.) that are extracted from within the search results. It is like peering into the documents to see ahead what is important. This helps you find the results that you are looking for faster.
In the chart above you can see five different elements.
The represents the underlying web page that contains the extracted entities - i.e. the result. If you click on it it will take you to the web page that has the displayed information just like standard search engine would.
The other elements in the result chart, the domain , the email , and the two concepts and have been extracted from the result link and are clickable as well. Once clicked they will lead you to a new set of more focused results. For example if you click on 'Hot Weather' a new search will commence for 'dogs and "Hot Weather"'.
That is how you can use Cluuz to discover information that you are looking for faster.

Another thing that Cluuz does for you is clustering. Each brick in the wall represents a cluster of results. The cluster is figured out by peering into the found web pages and checking to see if they are talking about the same thing. For example, here is a search for 'apple':

As you can see, Steve Jobs (57) is the first result in the result wall. This cluster has 57 entities in it. All the web pages from the result set that talk about Steve Jobs are in this cluster. You can see some of the entities from the cluster in the result from above.

If you are more comfortable with textual results that look similar traditional search engines results, you can turn on the Cluster option by clicking on the Preferences and checking off Charts and checking on Cluster checkbox. This is how that selection looks like:

Now when you do a search for 'apple' the results look like this:

The currently selected cluster is highlighted in the list on the left. To select another cluster click on its title on the left.
If you want to see what are the important entities extracted for the cluster so that you can further focus your search click on the + sign beside the cluster title:

You can also get the clusters chart by clicking on the i:

Finally, there is one more option available that combines clusters and charting into one - you can select this option by clicking on 'Flash' checkbox:

Now, when you do a search you get a flash presentation that contains both the entities on the left, and the chart on the right:

You can click on any of the entities in the chart in which case chart centers on that entity. Double clicking the entity in the center brings up the web page if it is a URL entity or spawns another more focused search.

So choose the type of visual representation that you like best from the Preferences and do some searches. Cluuz will lead you to better results, faster.

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