Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Translate and listen with Ginger

Ginger is the new translator of Seekky. Despite her youth, she already knows how to translate between several languages and can read both the original text and the resulting translation.



You can include Ginger in your website without knowing anything about programming or web design, simply copying and pasting a bit of HTML. The form below shows an example that you can add to your webpage:


Seekky





Please note that Ginger has just started to translate and still commits some errors.
Over time you will see that she learns very quickly, please be patient with her. By the way, when she is reading text, usually use to take a rest after the first 600 characters for not running out of breath ...


Please, tell us what do you think about Ginger and how we could improve her functionality ...

Friday, May 30, 2008

Drill-down search

It's already available a new hierarchical web search feature at Seekky. The new technique consist of finding similar pages to each result when conducting any search. In the same way, you can also preview documents related to each result item, as well as additional results pages within the same domain as the site that you're previewing.


The following picture shows an example of the similar pages listing you get as a result of your search CNN.




By clicking on the similar pages icon for the "CNN" result item, you get a hit list containing links to the websites of other news agencies or channels like "ABC", "BBC" and others...


In the same way operates related documents link. In this case, it will show you links to documents (pdf, swf, doc, etc.) instead to websites. Keep in mind that you can preview documents on the same page, as we saw in search and preview multiple documents easily post.


One final interesting feature is "More results from this site" link, which like the other previously annotated links, shows you the pages related to the search concept you want, but in this case, within the domain www.cnn.com that you had selected.


It's very easy, the best thing to check is that you try....

Friday, May 23, 2008

Search and preview multiple documents easily

At last, you can use Seekky for searching your favorites documents across the web. With the new 1.19 version you can easily search for pdf files or for several file types at a time like Excel Word or Powerpoint files.

As always, you can easily add the multiple document search functionality to your page. Just add a document search form with some fields and you are done...

file type:


You can navigate accross the document in the same browser window, or save the document to your disk for later review...Just use the appropiate option, click on preview plus image for inline viewing or click in title entry link for local file downloading.

There are some special file types like kml and kmz that can viewed in a map. Just search for those file types and click on preview plus image for map previewing of the file.

The screenshot shows an example of a Seekky map previewing a kml file.

You can play with the example here.


Remember that we love your comments, please feedback whatever you like. See you soon seekker...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Address lookup functionality

Today we have released the new 1.17 version with several improvements and a new interesting functionality for address lookup.

Now, seekkers can search for an address or business, or even any location they know, and Seekky will offer them the list with the matching results. Another new cool feature is that you have a new bird's view available for each entry of the list.

This means that you can have a closer look at the address you are searching for just one-click away. As an example, you can have a look to the London eye. Click in the bird's view link of the London eye entry and move around the resulting image.

The imagery is Microsoft Virtual Earth courtesy and is available for about 250 major cities around the world. If your city it's not included, be patient, they are working hard to include all major north american and european cities with bird's view imaginery...If you don't want to wait, you can always use the satellite view link, a higher point of view, but on the contrary available all over the world...

You can add the address lookup functionality to your page. Just add a search form with some fields and you are done...


near to:


For those places where bird's view is not available, if you click in the link, you'll see an aerial map of the area with zoom capabilities.


You can have a look to the preview window where you can see a Google Maps view with severals markers pointing interesting places around your search...

Friday, April 25, 2008

Seekker's suggestions

Hi Seekkers, at last we can hear you clearly...
Please tell us what you think about Seekky, how to improve it, what's wrong, any bug...?
We are here to develop the tools you want, tell us about them...

If you have any suggestion please send us your feedback here... you'll find links to suggestions throughout all Seekky's pages...