I’m impressed by what I’ve read about U Rank so far. U Rank is a research prototype, to help us learn more about how people use such technologies and to be able to innovate in other types of social media.
I tried to download the prototype – unfortunately it’s only available in the US at the moment, so I‘ve been looking around for things it does:
Organize and annotate results: write notes to summarize important information under each URL
Lists: keep lists while you’re researching ("hotels for my next trip")
Collaboration: Share URLs with friends ("our reading list")
Recommendations: Tell your friends what you like ("favourite restaurants")
Multimedia results: Mix video and images with web results for added context
Ego-boosting: Make sure your home page is #1 (at least for you and your friends)
Easy to explore what your friends are sharing
Short-cuts: Move your favourite sites up; then put an ! in front of the query and go straight to the top result
If you’re US based – you can check out their blog for tips and tricks – and let me know whether you find it useful.
here’s in the UK – I’ll have to wait till it’s released internationally and i can have a play over here. Great project though…
