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BananaSLUG – Searching for Different Results
http://bananaslug.com/
With normal Google searching, there are many web pages that you’ll never see. BananaSlug throws in a random word from a category of your choice and you get a whole new set of results. Your results all match your search term, but our added twist gives you something new every time! BananaSlug is all about serendipity: finding the unexpected in the trillion+ web pages Google indexes. Google usually gives you pages most relevant to your search term, based on the pages’ popularity on the Web. You may never see some of the pages way down the list that are relevant or interesting, but off the beaten path. So they give you a little boost. They “seed” your search with another word, chosen at random, and this accidental encounter results in pages you may have overlooked. What, if anything, do all the results have in common? You tell me!
They offer several categories of random words: The major arcana and suits of the Tarot, some themes of Shakespeare (From Hamlet and King Lear), words from “Angel Cards”, first names, last names, jargon, archetypes, Laws of Spirit, Adler’s Great Ideas, random numbers, emotions, the NATO phonetic alphabet and colors. Their newest addition is sculptor Richard Serra’s “Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself”. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
