Butterflyzer's fully integrated browser uses the same web engine as the one you're using now (you can even pick the engine you want to use). So everything renders quickly and looks as you'd expect. (You can also import everything you find in Butterflyzer into your desktop browser bookmarks.)

Most of the Navigation works just as you'd expect.

To open a new web page:

See Back Button, Forward Button and Reload Button for common functions.

See Search Field for more information about how you can use the search field.

To collect the contents of a web page, including Semantics and statistics, do this:

To collect all of the page links from the page, including Semantics and Statistics, do this:

Look here for other actions you take with a Web Page.

Just as with any modern browser, Butterflyzer supports easy search capabilities. But with a Butterflyzer search you get much more.

To execute a search, do this:

As soon as you press enter, the following things will happen:

That's a lot happening from one key stroke! Typically, you'll see Web Pages and Tweets coming back almost instantly, with the more complex Semantic Results Tweet results completing within a minute or two. To find out how the searches are coming along -- and to cancel searches that you no longer need -- you can watch the progress of the searches in the Progress View.

(Why don't all of those searches slow your machine to a crawl? Most of the time you spend waiting for a web search is the time spent for the search to travel to the web server, the web server to process the results, and the results to be sent back to you. Your internet bandwidth and computer processing speed have very little to do with this. By managing many -- sometimes dozens -- of simultaneous searches at a time Butterflyzer is able to improve you search efficiency by orders of magnitude. Imagine the time it would take to go through each of those searches by hand.)

Every time that you create a search in the Search Field, Butterflyzer automatically creates a Tag for that search. In the Searching the Web we created a search for Big Data. You can always see the results of a prior search by selecting it in the Outline.

You can create powerful searches using just the Search Field by taking advantage of the search options provided by various vendors. For example, in Google you can exclude entries by using the '-' symbol. But Butterflyzer allows you to create more complex searches, as well as combine results from existing searches into new sets. But Butterflyzer provides a much friendlier and more manageable way to put together complex searches.

See the Set description for more about how sets work.

To create a set:

To Search on a set or any other terms:

The Butterflyzer browser is more than an ordinary browser...it supports unique features like gliding panes to make it easy to scan many pages at once and find exactly those items that are most relevant to you.

Find out how views work together to support multiple page browsing.

In addition to the regular browser mode, you have two other browser options.

If you want to browse pages normally, without using the Semantic Browser of reader, just: