Exploration mode

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.