"By
visualizing search
results and web sites as networks, constellations and
landscapes,
surfers get to drill into volumes of pages more intuitively," said Bill
Moulton,
President of Navagent. "Surf3D converts
the tedious
activity of clicking through long lists into a much more efficient and
lively
experience. Relevant information becomes visually more obvious, esthetic
and
dynamic. Users get a perspective on whats really out there and
save
themselves lots of time zeroing in on what they
want."
Surf3D can be enjoyed as a fun
screensaver,
or it can be tasked to save time and increase the quality of search
results from
any search engine or web site. Surf3D is designed for
non-programmers, and
can be quickly customized. The Surf3D
software is
currently available as a public beta freeware download from
Surf3D.com, and
runs on all versions of Windows. It uses OpenGL graphics and does
not
require a VRML viewer.
"Surf3D can be likened to
a
SETI-Online screensaver for the individual, for anyone who is
in search of information on the web," said Moulton. "It's
part
of a new software genre - productivity screensavers - and has
been
designed with the individual home user in mind. It makes searching the web more stimulating, artistic
and
interesting".
Intelligent agents find,
analyze and
retrieve documents and media from popular web sites. The software comes
with a
large collection of screensaver module search agents, which are
tuned for
many different popular web sites and search engine sites. Users get
unlimited
email web alerts, and can watch message boards, track industries,
drill
down into websites, or mine search engine results. Agents are
quickly
configured to collect documents, media and extract text from almost any
web
page.
Users see at-a-glance overviews
of many
pages at once, and can preview pages before having to
actually visit
them using a browser. Collections of web pages are visualized as
networks in three-dimensions, with color showing
relevance,
shape showing discovery status, and size showing different
focuses.
Surf3D can use
a standard internet browser to import a starting point for visualizing
and
drilling into collections of linked pages and documents. As
visualizations
are constructed and animated in real-time, users can point and
click on any
page node in cyberspace, and the browser will open to the
web
page.
The
free software
download includes dozens of screensaver module search agents
for
different popular sites. Search agents can be specialized for
particular websites, or can roam through many sites and harvest
information
for later offline browsing. Surf3D generates
concentrated HTML reports of searches. Users can shrink their
surfing
time to get at information they want from news sites such as ABC or BBC
or Fox,
search engine results from Google or MSN, auction data and pictures from
eBay,
text extracts from Yahoo message boards, and government
information from NASA, US Census, US Patent, or
Thomas Congressional bill databases.
About
Navagent:
Navagent was
founded by Bill
Moulton, Richard Wolton and Steve Wolff in 2000 to develop time
saving visual navigation tools for consumer and business web
users.
Navagent's
patent
pending technology helps web users streamline many of the browsing
challenges they face by exploiting a two-fold approach: (1) using personalized search agents to automate
browsing
tasks, and (2) using animated information
visualization to quickly preview large numbers of web pages at
once.
With Surf3D,
personal search agents are combined with
visual data
mining, and reports and alerts to any device, delivering a
consumer
and business solution for increasing web search
productivity. The
company provides consulting services to enterprises and institutions
wanting to
build custom focus suites of information agents for business
intelligence and
retrieval applications.
Bill Moulton, Navagent, Inc.
Phone: (415)
457-6659
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