Zakta.com Launches Personal and Social Web Search Engine
Sundar
Kadayam, Cincinnati-based search expert and entrepreneur, has created
Zakta.com, a personal and social
Web search engine that allows users to edit their search results and
build on the results of others.
"One of my biggest frustrations
has been that after spending hours searching on the Web, I had nothing
to show, reuse or benefit anyone else, including myself in the future,"
Kadayam says.
"Zakta helps the process of
searching for information by letting you edit, save and share your results
and then invite your community for feedback and insights." says Founder
and CEO Kadayam, who specialized in search technologies, text-mining, social
media analysis and networking at former companies that have included Intelliseek
Inc. and The Nielsen Company.
Along with the traditional features
expected in a web search engine, Zakta provides the following:
1). Fully editable search
results. Zakta’s search results are completely editable and under the user’s
control. A user can delete results that aren’t relevant. Drag-and-drop
results to rearrange them, or add tags and annotations to any result.
2). Automatically
saved searches. Zakta automatically saves all changes into a user’s Zakta
account so users benefit from their changes whenever they search again.
3). Tools
to gather and save information from everywhere. Zakta provides tools
like the Zakta ClipPad, the Zakta Plugin, and Zakta SearchPacks, to find
information anywhere on the web and include it in the user’s search process.
4). Easy
knowledge sharing. Zakta enables users to share their results in the form
of Zakta Guides.
5). Trusted
collaboration. Users can invite other people they trust – such as colleagues,
friends, or family members – to find information together and use a Zakta
Guide as a living, collaborative document.
"Zakta.com is the closest thing
to the next big thing in search I’ve seen," says Jason Falls, a top blogger
and author of the popular blog at SocialMediaExplorer.com. "There’s a ton
of relevance and power behind the Zakta idea. My friend’s search…
