# Microsearch Microsearch visualizes the frequency and distribution of terms in a corpus. ## Overview Each document in the corpus is represented as a vertical block where the height of the block indicates the relative size of the document compared to others in the corpus. The location of occurrences of search terms is located as red blocks (the brightness of the red further indicates the relative frequency within the corpus). Multiple search terms are collapsed together.
MicroSearch with the Works of Jane Austen. You can also use MicroSearch with your own corpus.
By default the top frequency word (after filtering for [stopwords](#!/guide/stopwords)) is shown. ## Options You can add more terms by using the search box – simply type in a term and hit enter (see [Term Searches](#!/guide/search) for more advanced searching capabilities). Clicking on the [Options](#!/guide/options) icon allows you to define a set of stopwords to exclude – see the [stopwords guide](#!/guide/stopwords) for more information. ## Additional Information [Bubblelines](#!/guide/bubblelines) is another tool for visualizing distribution of terms within documents on the scale of the entire corpus. ## See Also - [Getting Started](#!/guide/start) - [Stopwords](#!/guide/stopwords) - [Term Searches](#!/guide/search) - [Default Skin](#!/guide/skins-section-default-skin) - [List of Tools](#!/guide/tools)