{"id":2767,"date":"2009-07-15T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2009-07-15T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T18:04:33","slug":"spezify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/spezify\/","title":{"rendered":"Spezify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I saw a new search-engine that more than mildly impressed me (*), but the just-launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spezify.com\/\">Spezify<\/a> is impressive and different.  It&#8217;s primarily a visual search-engine aimed at designers and creatives, but also slips in relevant text and audio links.  I gave it <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2009\/06\/11\/an-academic-search-group-test\/\">a tough one<\/a>: <em>Mongolian folk song<\/em>, and it delivered very well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2009\/07\/spezify.jpg\" alt=\"spezify\" title=\"spezify\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, those are the results!  And, as I know this search inside-out, I&#8217;d say they&#8217;re a reasonably strong and relevant set of results. It seems to be aggregating Yahoo \/ Bing \/ YouTube, maybe even Google, but it&#8217;s refreshing to see the way the results are mixed and presented. I can see my Visual Communications and Fine Arts students flocking to this.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there&#8217;s no Firefox search-box addon yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;* (<em>Actually it was probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wefeelfine.org\/\">We feel fine<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I saw a new search-engine that more than mildly impressed me (*), but the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/spezify\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search","category-how-to-improve-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}