In the tictag environment the user can type in a tag for search and the application will return all related tags appeared in the delicious page of that tag. It will then present the user with all tags that have been assigned to google and yahoo url-results clustered by url.
The input tag and all tags retrieved appear within the screen as floating circles of the same color forming the tag’s characteristic tag-cloud. The most oftenly encountered tags appear in distinctive homocentric circles.
A new input tag by the user will start a new search whose results in different color will merge with the previous ones allowing for comparisons and overview of overlapping results. A navigational bar on the right helps for keeping track of the user’s search history as well as isolating separate searches for refinement of the results.
The user can further on request the actual website titles as given from all four yahoo search, google search, delicious’ mostly-tagged-as-such websites (ordered by popularity) and delicious’ recently-tagged-as-such websites (ordered chronologically) by clicking on a tag. The resulting website titles appear in heliocentric orientation and rotate upon scrolling of the mouse wheel.
Hovering on a specific title reveals the corresponding website’s description on the bottom of the screen; as well as highlights the tags assigned to it offering this way an alternate overview of the site’s content as seen by the users of the del.icio.us system.