When selected, includes Google Web Search in search results. Please see the Terms of Service link to ensure that your usage meets those terms. Butterflyzer does not monitor your usage and you alone are responsible for ensuring your compliance.

External Sites: Google Web Search API Terms of Service.

 When selected, includes Google News Search in search results. Please see the Terms of Service link for important legal information. Butterflyzer does not monitor your usage and you alone are responsible for compliance with the service provider's terms.

External Sites: Google Web Search API Terms of Service.

 When selected, includes Tweets obtained from Twitter in search results. Note that this can result in a large number of Tweets that you may or may not be interested in. When you are primarily interested in Web Pages, consider deselecting this option to avoid additional performance costs and storage requirements and avoid hitting Twitter API limit. Please see the Terms of Service link for important legal information. Butterflyzer does not monitor your usage and you alone are responsible for compliance with the service provider's terms.

External Sites: Twitter API Terms of Service.

 When selected along with the Twitter Search Engine option, includes retrospective Tweets in the results. This option performs a separate search for each of that last seven days and can result in a large number of Tweets selected. Users who are only interested in current results or Web Pages should consider deselecting this option. Please see the Terms of Service link for important legal information. Butterflyzer does not monitor your usage and you alone are responsible for compliance with the service provider's terms.

External Sites: Twitter API Terms of Service.

 When selected, adds Topsy Search to web page results, finds related Tweets using Topsy, and adds Topsy ranking and influence metrics to Web Page and Tweet results. Please see the Terms of Service link for important legal information. Butterflyzer does not monitor your usage and you alone are responsible for compliance with the service provider's terms.

External Sites: Topsy Terms of Service.

 When selected, enriches the results of any web searches with the powerful semantic tagging service provided by OpenCalais. Because this option collects a large number of tags, deselect it when you're only interested in web search results. Please see the Terms of Service link for important legal information. Butterflyzer does not monitor your usage and you alone are responsible for compliance with the service provider's terms.

External Sites: OpenCalais API Terms of Service.

 Remove any categories from the graph. Categories are collections, semantic types and other outline items that organize items. Selecting this item typically causes items and tags to no longer be organized in a hub and spoke style. This option is most useful for the Spring layout, and is quite powerful when combined with the Filter Cliques option. It doesn't work as well for Radial and Tree layouts, as it often causes items to appear on top of one another.

 Remove any items that don't have at least two connections to other items from the graph. This option is very useful for reducing clutter, especially when combined with the Filter Categories option.

 Remove items that aren't of the selected Resource Type from the graph and other results. For example, if Item Type is set to Web Pages, selecting this option will remove Tweets and Authors from the results.

See also: Resource Type Menu.

 Remove those items that don't have any influence recorded by the Topsy API. In order to be included, Web Pages must have at least one Tweet referring to them, and Tweets and Users must have an influence level greater than 0.

 Remove any Retweets from the results. This option is useful for narrowing down the set of Tweets to only those Tweets that carry unique information. On the other hand, if you want to gauge overall interest in a topic you should deselect this option.

 Ignore Twitter User followers when searching for related users. Note that if a Twitter user would be included for another reason -- for example, if a user was also following the related user -- that user will still be included in the results.

 Ignore other Twitter Users following the User when searching for related users. Note that if a Twitter user would be included for another reason -- for example, if the user was also being followed by a related user -- that user will still be included in the results.

 Ignores Mutual (two-way) relationships for Twitter Users when searching for related users.

 Ignore related mentioned users of other users from the results.

 Limit the number of related items. This option is useful when you have a large number of results and want to explore them while avoiding performance issues. After discovering the set of results that are most relevant, you can then deselect this option to see all related results.

 Select time period for items and animate selection over time.

 Shows the Graph. See the Outline documentation for more details.

See also: Outline.

 Shows the Browser. See the Browser documentation for more details.

 Shows the Graph. See the Graph View documentation for more details.

See also: Graph View.

 Shows the Table View. See the Table View documentation for more details.

See also: Table View.

 Displays web pages with Semantic Tagging. (Default.) Semantic Tags show up as colored text on a black background. You can perform any available action on Tags within the Semantic Browser. Just hover over a tag and the Context Menu will be displayed.

See also: Item Actions and Tag Actions.

 Displays any web pages in a Reader mode. The reader attempts to simplify text and removes most images resulting in faster loading times and easier scanning. It works well with the Tile Browser Mode. Note that when using the Semantic Browser, web pages are actually processed and then stored locally. Occasionally there might be issues with processing web pages using the Reader. In that case, just unselect this option while browsing those pages.

See also: Tiles Browser Mode Menu Item.

 When selected (default), items are shown in the Graph View. Hide Items by deselecting this option. This allows you to focus on the relationships between terms and concepts embedded within Web Pages and Tweets. Hiding items and connections (lines) greatly reduces screen clutter, but the underlying layout is still at work organizing the information. This unique visualization combines the clarity of a cloud layout approach while gathering related concepts together. Hiding items is most effective when combined with the Spring Layout.

See also: Spring Layout.

 When selected (default) text for Resource Items are displayed in the graph. For example, a Web Page node will display the title of the web page, and a Tweet node will display the text of the Tweet. When unselected, the nodes will be displayed as filled circles with their size defined by the scale settings.

See also: Scale Related.

 When selected (default), tags are shown in the Graph View. Hide Tags by deselecting this option. This shows related tags clustered together, allowing you to focus on the relationships between Tags without showing the related resources. Hiding items and connections (lines) greatly reduces screen clutter, but the underlying layout is still at work organizing the information. This unique visualization combines the clarity of a cloud layout approach while gathering related concepts together. Hiding items is most effective when combined with the Spring Layout.

See also: Spring Layout.

 When selected (default) text for Tags are displayed in the graph. For example, the tags for "Apple" and "IBM" will be shown. When unselected, the nodes will be displayed as normal text.

See also: Scale Related.

 Display Icons for nodes in the Graph View.

 Display URLs in browser and caption views.

 Display information about where and when the item was collected in browser and caption views.

 Scales items displayed in the graph based on the number of items in a node. (This option is only relevant when items are grouped together. The scale can be adjusted in the graph settings dialog.

See also: Graph Settings.

 Scales items displayed in the graph according to the number of related items that are connected to them. The scale can be adjusted in the graph settings dialog.

See also: Graph Settings.

 Scales items displayed in the graph according to the Topsy ranking for those items. The scale can be adjusted in the graph settings dialog.

See also: Graph Settings.

 Opens a Tool window for making changes in graph settings. These settings determine how the graph draws items in the graph. To make changes, drag the slider or enter a value in the field. Experiment with different settings to become familiar with what they do. For example, if fonts are too large in the graph, you can adjust the maximum size downward. The scaling items are work in the opposite way you might expect -- Setting the values lower will tend to make items larger. That's because the values represent the maximum value for a given scale. For example, if you expected almost all of your items to have no more than 50 items, you would set Count Items Scaling to 50. In this case, groups of items of 50 would be displayed in the largest possible size , and groups with 10 items would be displayed in a much smaller size. Topsy Bias reflects the relative importance you put on "Influential" vs. other Authors. Topsy Influential Threshold sets the influence number a user must have in order to be considered influential.

 Opens a Tool window for changing the way that the Spring Layout determines node locations. To make changes, drag the slider or enter a value in the field. If items are grouped to closely together or don't cluster well, you can often get better results by adjusting these values. Some values work better for different sorts of graphs, so there isn't one best set setting for these values, though the default values are good for most general graphs. The best way to understand what each of the settings does is simply to play with different values.

 Selects Web Pages as the primary interest type.

 Selects Tweets as the primary interest type.

 Selects Authors (Users) as the primary interest type.

 Set ItemType to Tags.

 Browser pages are selected from a list.

See also: Using the List Browser Mode.

 Browser pages are sliding tiles.

See also: Using the Tiles Browser Mode.

 Browser pages are small sliding tiles.

See also: Using the Tiles Browser Mode.

 Graph members organize themselves so that they are closest to those other items with which they share the most edges. The graph continues to update automatically so that over time the graph structure will become more organized.

 Graph members are arranged in a vertical tree format. Note that this can cause some items to appear off the screen.

 Graph members are arranged in a horizontal tree format.

 Graph members are arranged in a radial tree centered around a central set of nodes.

 Sets the relationship depth to 1. This option works well for quickly examining relationships between tags and items and other simple results.

 Sets the relationship depth to 2. This option is often a good compromise between richness of relationships, useful results and good performance.

 Sets the relationship depth to 3. This option can result in a large number of results and can result in reduced performance.

 Include all relationships in the results regardless of distance from the focused items or tags. This means that any items connected to the focused items will appear in the selection. This option only makes sense to use when relations are very sparse. It can return a very large number of results it can result in poor performance.