Icon Archive - Search 590,918 free icons, desktop icons, download icons, social icons, xp icons, vista icons Quintura - visual search engine In the vast digital landscape of the internet, search engines play a pivotal role in helping us find the information we seek. While major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo dominate the market, there are several innovative alternatives that offer unique features and capabilities, including visual context-based image search. In this article, we'll explore 15 of the best alternative search engines, with a primary focus on those that offer image search capabilities akin to Quintura, taking a step beyond traditional keyword search. While popular search engines continue to dominate the digital landscape, these 15 alternative search engines offer unique features, with a special emphasis on visual context-based image search similar to Quintura. ⚫ Manchester hotels ⚫ Liverpool hotels ⚫ Bournemouth hotels ⚫ Cambridge hotels ⚫ Blackpool hotels ⚫ Cardiff hotels ⚫ Bristol hotels ⚫ Oxford hotels ⚫ Nottingham hotels ⚫ Edinburgh hotels ⚫ Brighton hotels ⚫ Glasgow hotels ⚫ Birmingham hotels ⚫ Leeds hotels
The WWW Virtual Library Protovis Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB). This project was led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with significant help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Updates June 28, 2011 - Protovis is no longer under active development. September 17, 2010 - Release 3.3 is available on GitHub. May 28, 2010 - ZOMG! Getting Started
Icons Etc Big Data Is As Misunderstood As Twitter Was Back In 2008 Boonsri Dickinson, Business Insider In 2008, when Howard Lindzon started StockTwits, no one knew what Twitter was. Obviously, that has changed. Now that Twitter is more of a mainstream communication channel, Lindzon has figured out the secret to getting past all the noise on Twitter. By using human curation, StockTwits can serve up relevant social media content to major players like MSN Money. Lindzon said there are three key aspects that have helped solve the spammy nature of Twitter: StockTwits uses humans to curate social media contentThe technology filters out penny stock mentionsIt has house rules that people must follow or else they get kicked out of it. It's working: there were 63 million impressions of messages viewed yesterday. The value in big data, like the sentiment in tweets, is not yet understood, Lindzon said. "Prices and business models are being made up now because this data is so fresh and interesting and real time. Disclosure: Lindzon is an investor in Business Insider.
Improve Your Google Search Skills [Infographic] Don’t limit yourself to just plugging in simple search terms to Google; check out this infographic and learn a search string search or two. You don’t need to limit yourself to searching just for simple strings; Google supports all manner of handy search tricks. If you want to search just HowToGeek.com’s archive of XBMC articles, for example, you can plug in site:howtogeek.com XBMC to search our site. Get More Out of Google [HackCollege via Mashable] Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to.
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