Google's Wonder Wheel
Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Their new “Wonder Wheels” offer a graphical way to explore topics. Clicking on related searches on the wheel allows you to go deeper into the subject of your query.
This visual search engine may help you find what you are looking for even when you aren’t sure in which direction to look.
Here’s how to access Wonder Wheels….
1. Type in your key word(s) in your Google search box.
2. Click the Show options… link.
A list of options will expand on the left side of the page.
3. Under Standard view at the bottom of the list, click Wonder wheel.
The Wonder Wheel will appear with your keyword(s) in the center of the wheel.
In this example, “simple machines” were the keywords. Once the Wonder Wheel appeared, I clicked “lever”, one of the wheel’s ‘spokes’, and the wonder wheel expanded and the search hits on the right also adjusted to meet my narrowing search.
