Why Not Draw For The News?

http://www.doodlebuzz.com/

Doodle Buzz

At first glance this mashup seems to be a total waste of time, but if you really go in depth and see what it has to offer then you will be surprised at what you will find. First you just draw a line of any sort and when you are done a series of news stories about your topic will show up. Yes they are overlapped, but it will highlight the one your cursor is on. When you click on one you can draw another line and it will show a small blip about the article and if you want to delve deeper you can click on one of the related words. If you choose to click on the story then it will take you to that article, but if you choose a related word you must draw another line and more related stories will show up. It keeps going until you find the appropriate article.

It is extremely easy to use but the only problem with it is that the stories all overlap each other and are hard to see from time to time. This website could be useful if the searcher is very bored of the regular search engines. One thing that is specific to this website and not others is that you can actually click on an article and still be able to search other things relating to that article. It makes deep research much easier. At the same time I can see people many people disliking the way it works.

Personally I would never use it because all the articles overlap each other, but it is fun to play around with for a while. It fits into web 2.0 is because it takes searching to a very interactive level, the researcher can now literally draw out their ideas.