Amaznode: Better Than It Sounds

The word “Amaznode” doesn’t drip with fun, does it? In fact, it sounds a lot like a little bug that eats up your garden, or maybe even a wierd growth that ruins the careers of opera singers. It certainly doesn’t sound like what it actually is: an “Amazon related product search” (okay, also dreary, but hold on), that lets you type in any word, then creates a web of Amazon products that are in some way related to that word. The process is similar to what Amazon does when it recommends products for its users, except instead of basing the search on prior purchases (which could have been gifts for very boring people, thereby throwing off the whole system), Amaznode bases the search off of any one keyword. Say, for instance, that you’ve suddenly developed an unquenchable interest in cupcakes. Type that word into Amaznode, and soon you’ll get an entire web of cupcake offshoots from cookbooks to cupcake-themed murder-mysteries (juicy!). The coolest thing about this method of searching is that absolutely everything is right in front of you in picture form; if you swipe your mouse over any of the little boxes, the picture grows, and if you click it, the picture gets even bigger– and provides a click through to buy it from Amazon. What an easy new way to do research (or feed obsessions). Amazing– I’m sold.

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