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    October 16

    Adding a new URL

     
    Here's a quick tip: You can add any URL to your search lists--even if it has not been crawled and indexed yet by Live.com.  (U Rank uses Live.com on the backend for its search results).  Here's how you do that:
     
    1. Type the URL that you want to add (e.g., http://research.microsoft.com/projects/urank/ )  into the “Add an item” box on the right and click the magnifying glass icon. U Rank will detect that this is a URL and give you the option of creating a new entry (in addition to returning any relevant search results):
     
     
     
    addurl
     

     2. Click on the chevron and you’ll see a form to fill in with title and description:

     
    addurl2
     
    3. Once you've filled in the form, click the + button and then drag the new entry to your search result list.
     
     
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    October 10

    Thanks for checking out U Rank

    Thanks very much for checking out U Rank.  If you've found this blog, there's a good chance you've already seen the U Rank project page, and our prototype of U Rank.  If you haven't, well, go take a look. 
     
    U Rank is a research project to help us learn more about how people organize search results as they go about larger information tasks, how people collaboratively search, and generally, how people edit and share searches.  We believe that finding something on the web is only the first step for many tasks. To better support people as they are exploring a topic, comparing information, keeping track of what they're learning, and collaborating with others, U Rank has general support for organizing, annotating, remembering, and sharing search results.  We are very interested in your feedback.
     
    On this blog, we'll be presenting scenarios and features, announcing updates and changes to U Rank, and answering your questions.
     
    This is just a first post to the blog, but I did want to take a minute to quickly highlight some of the features of U Rank.
     
    • First, moving results around is easy.  Just click on "move me" next to a search result and drag and drop the result up and down. 
    • More interestingly, moving results between different searches is easy.  Click "add to these results",

      search for what you want to add,

      and then drag it over. If you want to add a URL--even a new URL that is not in the search index, just type the URL into the add an item box, and U Rank will prompt you for a title and description and let you drag it over.
    • A quick note about sharing and your friends' tag clouds:  Changes you make to your search results while sharing is on will be visible to your friends.  This includes moves, deletions, adding new results and notes.  This does not include searches where you do not edit results.  If you want to hide or delete any changes you've made to search results, you can go to your history page and find all of your edits there.

    Thanks again for checking out U Rank.  We'll be posting more here soon.

     urank@microsoft.com

     

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