Comments on: Google Graphing Fun

Google Graphing Fun

metaxa — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 03:00:47 -0800

Graphing Google Neat little Java applet which will create pretty graphs of inter-site relationships based on Google's 'Related Sites' feature. Check out MetaFilter,BBC News and Slashdot for good examples of how deep the inter linking can go. Try graphing your own site! Neat. (Requires Java)

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:01:20 -0800

Wow. Just wow. Had to dl Sun's Java run-time, but it was worth it. This is amazing. Thanks, metaxa, for a truly great find. My only caveat: this is based on Google's algorithms? So it's no better than Google's ideas of what a 'related site' is. Still, it's fascinating to explore.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:06:32 -0800

This has been around for about a year or so (I mentioned it on my wee blog on July 4 2002). It is indeed very cool, and I'm pretty sure it and a number of other similar visualization projects have been linked from here before, but I'm far too lazy to look for the thread(s) in question. Regardless, neato, indeed, yes.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 04:50:10 -0800

Yup, there have been other links posted here before, but I wouldn't know how to find 'em. "Search Metafilter" is not my friend. Still, looking at the metafilter graph was cool. It looked a lot like a who's who of the blogging world. Needless to say, I was not represented. :) I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that wil wheaton was represented.

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 05:37:52 -0800

I saw something similar on Ray Kurzweil's site that uses a program from TheBrain Technologies... personal copies can be used and possibly transferred to the web like Ray's for a fee. There are ways of expanding the TouchGraph GoogleBrowser past the initial chart -- triple[probably, it's not clear, at least double] clicking on any of the branches will open up a small button that says 0-10 or 0-20, at which time it expands that many layers [i think]. You can also just add urls to the current tree by typing it in at the top. The zoom feature is also nice too. I couldn't find my cafepress store though :( Time to get a page of my own.

By: moses

moses — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:56:21 -0800

Looks like scaled-down version of Kartoo, previously discussed, with a twist of Google.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:45:37 -0800

Posted on July 2, 2002.

By: xammerboy

xammerboy — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:46:12 -0800

How does this work exactly?

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:19:15 -0800

Weird... interesting, but I don't get how this works. My graph shows links from my site to other sites that have nothing to do with mine and that I never linked to (like Disney.com), and links from sites that don't have links to me that I could find.