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Third of 7 ways to improve informational searches …

3. Own and control the search process and results completely

Often, the search results have a mix of personally relevant and irrelevant results. Can you edit, delete, or reorder your search results so they reflect what you personally find as relevant to you?

On Zakta, the search results are completely editable, and under your control. You can delete results you don’t like. You can drag-and-drop results to rearrange them. You can add tags and annotations to any result. Just hover over any result, and use the toolbar that is visible on the result and edit it the way you want it.

Frequently, you have to do multiple queries to find information on the same topic, so the information you need is actually spread across the search results for multiple queries. Can you keep the interesting results from these multiple queries in one place for easy consumption?

Zakta has the perfect tool for this scenario, called the ClipPad that you can use to save information that you want, in one place, from your various queries on the same topic.

The Web is so big that, sometimes, no single Web search engine can help you find all the information you need from one place. Can you easily search alternative sources to find what you are looking for?

Zakta has the ideal solution for this in the form of Zakta SearchPacks, which bring together the best Web search engines of a given type / category and lets you search them all from a single interface.

Finally, sometimes you find the information you need while you are browsing, not while you are searching, even if you started off with a search result page from some search engine. Can you keep these important finds together with other things you might have found earlier?

Zakta has an elegant solution for this problem, in the form of a Plugin for Firefox, that enables you to search anywhere, and clip and save anything you want from anywhere directly into your ClipPad (or your Guides, a feature we’ll cover in a follow on post).