Monthly Archives: April 2010

How To: Search More Efficiently With The Zakta ClipPad

This is the second in a series of blog posts that present videos on how to get the most out of Zakta.

Here’s a short video outlining how to to search the Web more efficiently using the ClipPad feature in Zakta.

* Viewed best in full screen mode and HD

In our previous post, we showed how to personalize your Web search with Zakta.  This method makes it very easy to delete, reorder, and tag/annotate your search results for any single query and come right back to them at a later time.

However, searching for information on a single topic often involves doing multiple queries, sifting through results, and saving what we find through bookmarks, email notes, post-its etc. As most of us know from experience, this process can be cumbersome, time consuming and frustrating.

Zakta makes this process much simpler through a tool called the ClipPad. Here’s a quick review of how to use the ClipPad and how it helps make Web searching more efficient:

  • The ClipPad is a feature that you can turn on in Zakta *.
  • You can attach or dock the ClipPad to the right of your search results page.
  • You can add any Zakta search result to the ClipPad.
  • You can incrementally organize your additions to the ClipPad using sections.
  • The ClipPad automatically saves your findings into your account.
  • You can run multiple queries for your search topic, and the ClipPad will remain anchored to your window, giving you instant access to your previously saved results and enabling you to add and organize new results of interest readily.
  • You can also generate a Zakta Guide directly from the ClipPad, and easily share what you found with others.

* You need to be logged into Zakta (sign up is free and easy) to benefit from this feature.

If you search the Web frequently for information, we think that you will love the Zakta ClipPad and how it saves time and reduces frustration in searching the Web.

As always, please let us know what you think.

How To: Personalize your web search with Zakta

We have put together a series of how-to videos on getting the most out of Zakta, each of which I’ll highlight through a series of blog posts.

Here’s a short video outlining how to to personalize your web search.

* Viewed best in full screen mode and HD

Here’s a quick review of the top features in Zakta that vastly improve and personalize your web search experience:

  • Semantics:  Zakta uses semantic knowledge on millions of topics of information to provide meaningful ways to choose the topic of relevance to you when you are searching, and also to explore the space of semantically related topics to your query.  This improves relevance of the results and enables faster discovery.
  • Organized results: Zakta uses automatic classification and templates to organize your search results into categories that are meaningful for your query. So, for example, a query on a celebrity will contain results on categories such as Gossip, Fan Fare etc., while a query on a disease will contain results on categories such as Causes, Medical Treatment etc. This improves efficiency in your web search, letting you focus in on specific aspects of the search results faster.
  • Personalization: Beyond the facilities listed above to improve the relevance of your search results, Zakta enables you to delete search results, drag-and-drop to reorder search results, and annotate and tag search results, making the search experience very personal to you.  All your changes are automatically saved to your Zakta account. This saves time and reduces the frustration with having to redo your searches over and over again.

Do send along your feedback and let us know what we can do to make Zakta even better for you.