What is Zakta?

Zakta is a personal and social Web search engine where
you can find, personalize, share and discover information from the
Internet.
What is unique about Zakta? On Zakta, you can:
1.
Find: Benefit from smarter, organized search results tailored to your
specific query
- Zakta organizes search results into sections to make it easier to find
what you want, and it automatically suggests related topics to explore
- Zakta uses built-in knowledge of more than 3-million informational
topics and about 100 categories to better organize your search results. For
example, if you search for a drug, Zakta will bring you results on How it
works, Dosage, Side Effects and more. If you search for a video game, Zakta
will bring you results on Plot, Characters, Reviews and more.
2.
Personalize: Edit your search results to keep only what you want and
how you want it
- Zakta gives you a full suite of tools to personalize your search results
- You can delete results you don't like and put results in any order you
want by simply dragging and dropping them
- You can classify, tag and annotate any result that you wish to keep
- You can also save results into your personal ClipPad for use
later
3.
Share: Publish and share what you've found with
others in the form of Zakta Guides
- Beyond making your search results personally relevant and organized,
Zakta enables you to share what you find in the form of Zakta Guides
- You can create a Zakta Guide from the process of searching, or create it
from scratch using the interactive Zakta Guide Editor
- You can invite other people to collaborate with you in creating or
enhancing your Zakta Guides
- You can also let any member of Zakta add their findings to your
Guides
4.
Discover: Connect with friends and experts you
trust, and discover information they recommend
- On Zakta, you can engage even deeper with the growing community of Zakta
members by connecting to people you trust in specific interest areas, and
letting others connect to you in turn. This can include friends as well as
experts
- By connecting to other people, you can automatically discover what they
find interesting on the Web in your interest areas. In turn, you too can use
the Recommend feature present throughout Zakta to give a thumbs-up to
what you like, and that information is relayed automatically to all those
who trust you. For example, if you have a friend you trust who's an expert
on cars, you can automatically be notified about automotive
information on the Web that he/she recommends
This newfound ability to edit and save your search results means you spend
less time searching for information and more time benefiting from its knowledge.
At Zatka, the Web gets organized and smarter, one topic at a time, for you
and for everyone else.
Zakta is no ordinary search engine. Zakta gets smarter with each
search and each user interaction, and as a Zakta user, you benefit from a
system that improves its results continuously.
Zakta takes the guesswork out of searching for information on the Internet.
As a Web search and discovery for you and people you trust, Zakta helps you find
exactly what you are searching for.
Why should I use Zakta? What's in it for me?
With Zakta:
- You save time in finding INFORMATION or doing your research
- You find the best information and keep it organized in one place
- You help others find good information, and benefit from others doing the
same
- You get smarter faster and stay informed, by collaborating with others,
and getting recommendations from people you trust
Zakta is NOT a traditional Web search engine. With Zakta:
- YOU are at the center of the search process
- Each time you use Zakta, the collective knowledge grows
- The Web gets organized one topic at a time
- Searches get smarter, and deliver exactly the information YOU are looking for!
Why would I want to invite others to join me on Zakta?
Take advantage of what others know
Zakta is a unique social tool that let users join
others they trust and benefit from a continual flow of recommendations that
emerge in the process.
Connect to those you trust
Users on Zakta can specify who they trust and for what, and thereby control
the scope of influence each user in their network will have on the
recommendations they receive. Zakta is unique in placing trust and influence
at the core of how people connect to others on it.
Why would I want to use Zakta regularly?
Use Zakta as a better starting point for new searches
If your initial experience is satisfying, as we surmise, then the better
search experience alone would be a top reason to return to the site to do
new searches.
Pause your searching any time and return to it when you can
With Zakta, your personal changes to any search is saved for you. You can
return to your searching later, and continue from where you left, rather than
from the same old list of results everyone sees elsewhere.
Help others by sharing what you know and what you find
Unlike traditional search engines, with Zakta, you can stay involved in helping
others find information better and faster, by sharing what you know and what you
find all the time. The collective knowledge grows faster and everyone benefits.
Get recommendations from your trust-network
Zakta Happenings can deliver personally relevant recommendations from your trust-network even
when you are not searching. These can be delivered via email, or can be seen
by revisiting the web site.
Stay on top of events related to your guides
Follow comments, suggestions, recommendations made by others on your guides.
Be informed of changes happening with guides you've subscribed to
Follow changes and improvements being made to guides that you've liked and subscribed
to.
Remain engaged in relevant social network activity on Zakta
Find new people to connect to, follow key events with people on your trust-network, and lot more