Nowadays tag cloud is popular and widely used site navigation tool. There are many various tag cloud components presented in the Internet. But you can differ one from the others by cloud representation and words arrangement only. Usually these components require additional support from site developers. They may require manual input of cloud words on installation. If page content is changed these components require manual corrections also. As a result, tag cloud often contains unreliable information and not relevant links. Besides majority of tag cloud components are static and display only one predefined set of tags, which limits their usability greatly.

DataCloud. Intellectual alternative to standard tag cloud

The DataCloud is a visual query-building module that can be integrated into web site. It integrates tightly with site search engine (search string and search results) realizing original innovative solutions. With the help of the latest technologies DataCloud reveals alternative ways for Internet search.

In contrast to a standard search string, DataCloud visually presents possible ways of making a query, i.e. offers possible variants in a simply and useable form. Like «adviser» recently appeared in the search engines, DataCloud allows the user to ask a question, which gives more relevant answers. As opposed to the suggestions (that allow to add some continuation to the query), the DataCloud allows to make associative jump to related topics. Topics and term relations for each site are calculated individually on the basis of own intelligent algorithm.

The main purpose of DataCloud is to make a search query easily, even without using a keyboard. However, there are some additional features: DataCloud displays the most important words of the site, giving an idea about the site content. Such words are displayed as cloud by various sized fonts. Most important words and those concerning them are displayed in a larger font. This method gives information not only about site general subject, but also about its peculiarity and main topics.

As a very flexible solution DataCloud has various options that allow to adjust not only its form (color, font, etc.) but its content also.

DataCloud compared with standard tag cloud

In comparison with standard tag cloud component DataCloud has several advantages. One of the DataCloud features is that it can be built in automatic mode. To build map in automatic mode special intellectual algorithms are used. To reveal semantic relation between site terms thesauruses are built automatically for current site content. In spite of associative relations building and visualization processes take place on a computer, the fundamental principles are similar to the human brain and evolution process. There are the analogies of the building relations between ensembles of neuron and random search with the most suitable solutions selection. This way allows to reveal a lot of noised terms automatically (intellectually).

So, high intellectual technologies used in DataCloud allow to automate cloud building, to analyze site content and to identify the most important site terms and their semantic relations.

The DataCloud is an active (non static) component that changes its content depending on user actions, that makes one of DataCloud distinctive features. DataCloud looks like a normal tag cloud, but on every word pick cloud is rebuilt to display the words concerning the chosen word and the selected word is added to the search query. Thus, DataCloud allows to build a search query, and is not only a navigation tool, but also a search refining tool.

DataCloud uses site content directly building cloud for current site content. So, the automatically built cloud is fully corresponding with the site content. When site content is modified DataCloud has the automatically update ability to present actual content.

Hulbee DataCloud uses the well-known Yahoo! search service.

To get acquainted with DataCloud visit http://datacloud.hulbee.com/

Documentation for Webmaster

English: DataCloudPrivateEdition_en.pdf (30,5 Mb)