Tag Archives: Organized search results

How to: Create a Zakta Guide Using Expert Guide Creator

If you’re feeling confident in your Zakta skills, you can use the Expert Guide Creator to find the links, sections and sources that you need to compile and organize your search results in one easy location in a single step.

Another way to think about this is as follows: Imagine being able to search across multiple related subtopics (using different queries) from across different sources of information and get organized results for all of it in a single step, in an editable document that you can enhance and share with others!

This is what that the Zakta Expert Guide Creator does for you.

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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.

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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.

7 ways to improve informational searches – (1 of 7) Start with organized search results

The first of 7 ways to improve informational searches

1.  Start with organized search results

When you are searching for information on a topic you are not familiar with, seeing a flat, disorganized list of search results is a big hurdle. Can you get organized search results from your tool of choice?

Zakta organizes the search results for millions of topics of information into meaningful categories automatically.

For example:  Search for dementia on Zakta, and you’ll see how results are organized into Reference, Web Sites, Books and Articles, Educational, What It Is, Prevalence, Causes, Prevention, Symptoms, Risk Factors, Tests, Diagnosis, Medical Treatment, Alternatives, Research, History, Prognosis, and Resources. See below.

Organized search results for Dementia

Or, search for michael jordan on Zakta, and you’ll see results organized into Reference, Web Sites, Books and Articles, Educational, Bio, Career, Records, Teams, Controversies, Fan Fare, Video Highlights, and Trivia. See below.

Zakta organized search results for Michael Jordan