U Rank: Microsoft Discovers Social Search - Searching, Enhanced
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I know, the image didn't shrink very well. But just below the search box you may have noticed a list of people that are described as “people you may know,” while next to the search itself I'm given the option of clicking to search without sharing (sharing is on by default). Near the top, I can click to see such things as my friends, history, and settings; I can also sign out. And oh yes, in the upper left hand corner I can also invite a friend to join U Rank.
Let me start by searching for “SEO resources.” Take a look at the options I get when I hover over one of the results:
I can take the particular result and move it (up or down, though presumably not up if it's the first result), add a note to it, delete it from the results, or copy it to another search. What does this mean? Well, I tried it out. Click on the "copy me" option next to a particular result and you get a text box below the result. In this case, I tried adding seobook.com to the search “Aaron Wall's site.” It took a while to save, but once it did, I did a search on “Aaron Wall's site,” and sure enough, it was right at the top:
As you can see, the result has a little yellow rectangle next to it highlighting that I moved it up. This may seem like a silly example, but I think you can see the potential there. The people working on U Rank gave examples that included results which had been moved up for such searches as “upcoming conferences” and “books I want to read.”
Before I show you what the other items in the box can do, you may have noticed the “Add to these results” note next to the listed results. What does that do? Well, to start with, you get an interesting pane to the right of the current results:
Naturally, I searched for “SEO Chat,” and got a long list of links to this site. So I dragged the top one over. I was prepared for a clunky response, since the site seemed a little slow in delivering search results. But I was pleasantly surprised; it was easy to grab the URL, and when I dragged it over to my original results, they slid smoothly aside as I put it in place. It must be more of that lovely AJAX magic I keep seeing online. Once the new result settled into place, it sported a yellow rectangle just like the one I mentioned before, saying that the result had been moved up by me.
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