Exploration mode
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We created the Outer Web to help web contributors find and link each other and, in doing so, created a large (and growing) galaxy of webpages.
There are a lot of great things that can be done with this data and one of those things is Exploration Mode. It’s exactly as it sounds: an interface for exploring webpages indexed by the Outer Web. Since we organize content by similarity, if you’re viewing a page about sci-fi interfaces, your exploration options will be topically similar.
Explore mode has a thematic UI but is nonetheless straightforward: clicking on planets (/asteroids/comets) takes you around our index, the text blurbs link to the offsite page content.
The parsec distance is a real measure of (dis)similarity, for most queries we show a fourth result that is numerous hops away.
Start exploring
- For casual browsing, the Explore link takes you to a list of categories will send you to some related posts.
- If you're using Navicomputer, you can jump into explore mode from any of the results.
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