A Visualization System for Web Local Search

  • Authors:
  • B. Buttarazzi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IV '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Web visualization systems are widely used in browsing or viewing search engine results. In the case of web local search tool, however the browsing paradigm is combined with searching paradigm, thus requiring dynamic visualization methods. We describe an example of visualization system that is an extension of a common JavaScript used as a website map. It is interfaced with a Java-based local search tool named VSEARCH. Our system provides an easy-to-integrate mechanism to implement information visualization techniques like node coloring.