The Latest Scoop at hakia.com: Introducing the hakia ScoopBar
Our users have been asking for a hakia Toolbar and we decided to build one. You know, a Toolbar that is always there for you, sitting quietly on your browser for you to easily conduct a search- just like what Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and others offer. Of course, one thing led to the other and we found ourselves offering you: a hakia ScoopBar!
What is the hakia ScoopBar? You can watch the demo here or read on. hakia ScoopBar is a new search tool and to the naked eye it just looks like a toolbar. But when you perform a search with the hakia ScoopBar, and click on the results, you will discover three new Web features not found in any other toolbar in use today:
o You will be pointed to the highlighted answer text- not keywords- inside the document, to save time
o You will be taken to the highlighted answer text with automatic scroll down, to eliminate “double searching” (Web search + inside the search result search)
o You will have the option to then “Scoop ‘n Save†your search result into files you create on your harddrive(under various project names) so that you can never lose your references
Download it HERE& kick the tires of the hakia ScoopBar. Tell us how we do!
A huge thanks & congrats goes to our lead developer, Gokalp Gurbuzer (in the picture with the scoop), who worked very hard on the ScoopBar. Of course, the bigger part of his task starts now, making your suggestions for the hakia ScoopBar Version 2.0. happen. Keep them coming!
July 28th, 2007 at 1:14 am
So, I think it would be a cool idea for you guys to make stuff for macs along side PC’s. Im a mac user and would love to take full advantage of the hakia scoopbar on my macbook. The marketshare of mac users is growing quite repidly so it might not be a bad idea in general anyway. Just my input
Thanks,
-Andrew
July 28th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for the feedback!
We are now developing the ScoopBar for Firefox. We will work on the Mac version next!
Happy searching at hakia.com,
User Care Team
July 28th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Awesome. you guys are doin good!
Keep up the good work
-Andrew
July 29th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
nice “scoop” lets see its effects .
u better post a poll also about ” how many users do use a tool bar for search” in general.
thx
July 31st, 2007 at 10:44 pm
yeah, i used to use google a lot. i never actually went to the site though, i would always use the search bar that comes with safari. it would be real convenient to have a hakia search bar.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
very nice picture, congrats
August 8th, 2007 at 7:34 am
vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, ohaaaaaaaa….
what a wonderfull project that is. I have been surfing for about 10 years over internet and always felt a need a tool like that. Thank you and, in Turkish, Helal olsun sana Hakia for giving us that opportunity. Developing that project must be very diffucult and the developer of it should be very very clever. I congratulate all Hakia team and ther developer Gokalp.
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