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One feature that I was really impressed with is "WonderWheel". It works like a search engine, but is different in the fact that it allows the user to "see" possiblities of topics that are related to their search. A list of eight topics form a wheel around their inital search. By choosing one of the options it creates another "wheel" of topics related to the sub topic that was chosen. It is much more visual than the normal search engines that we are acustom to. On the left side of the screen is a listing of topics like you would be used to seeing and working with. I think the idea of "WonderWheel" is very interesting especially for the visual learner, it allows them to visualize the topic they keyed in as well as the related topics that may have information relevant to what they initially searched for.

A second possiblity I found interesting was "Scoopler". It is another search engine, but will search the internet as well as Delicious, Digg, Twitter, and Flickr in one place all at the same time. It is much better at finding the most current information on a topic you choose. The screen displays results in two columns, a "live" colum that gives links to the most current information availible on the topic searched, and "popular" wich returns the results of the most viewed links that have been used. I did a search for Sam Bradford who is likely to be taken 1st in the NFL Draft it was intersting to see the "live" results from twitter.