Archive for February, 2009

Books, Bytes and Trees: What Do You Know?

February 11th, 2009 by hakia Team

We put together a fun quiz and invite you to stop thinking about the economy/stimulus package/your job and take a moment to ponder about the size of information overload/resources/pollution in the Internet age. We think about searching it better- all the time!

Here is a teaser, the first question.

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Take the hakia Quiz now at http://company.hakia.com/quiz/quiz1.html. Enjoy!

hakia ScoopBar, Now Highlights Pages Found by Other Search Engines.

February 5th, 2009 by hakia Team

A new version of hakia Scoopbar (both for IE and FireFox browsers) has just been released. This version highlights search results in the opened Web pages that are found by hakia, as well as Google, Yahoo, Live, or any other search engine.

An example is shown below for the query “roman invasion of jerusalem” using Google.

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With the hakia Scoopbar installed and Highlight button activated (as shown above), you can open long documents and the search result will be located on the page by automatic scrolling and highlighting (as shown below.)

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Auto-highlighting is increasingly becoming more important to tackle the 2nd search problem especially for longer documents. hakia team is committed to improve this functionality for the Web searchers.

Note that hakia ScoopBar does not monitor user behavior, does not track Web traffic, and comes with uninstall option. Give it a try and let us know your opinion.