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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.liveside.net/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>LiveSide - News blog : URank</title><link>http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/tags/URank/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: URank</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>New from MS Research: URank - “Search Gets Organized”</title><link>http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/10/09/new-from-ms-research-urank-search-gets-organized.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:13:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">56c526a3-1f9b-4262-a0cc-2de2ce4c7619:10602</guid><dc:creator>Kip Kniskern</dc:creator><slash:comments>15</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.liveside.net/main/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=10602</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2008/10/09/new-from-ms-research-urank-search-gets-organized.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Just in from Microsoft Research, a new tool for ranking, sorting, and sharing search results called URank.&amp;#160; URank, a research prototype developed at Microsoft Research by &lt;a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~emrek/" target="_blank"&gt;Emre Kiciman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~shuochen/" target="_blank"&gt;Shuo Chen&lt;/a&gt;, and&amp;#160; intern Konstantin Mertsalov, with some help apparently from &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072" target="_blank"&gt;Greg Linden&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; and others, allows you to move search results around to personalize your searches, collaborate with others to share searches, and much more.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.liveside.net/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/main/URank_5F00_0CAA32CA.png"&gt;&lt;img title="URank" style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;display:inline;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" height="170" alt="URank" src="http://www.liveside.net/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/main/URank_5F00_thumb_5F00_17D64DC5.png" width="403" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can watch a &lt;a href="http://research.microsoft.com/projects/urank/urank-screencast-3.wmv" target="_blank"&gt;screencast of URank&lt;/a&gt; (“IE8 users, right-click and download the file and open in Windows Media Player”), &lt;a href="http://urank.viveri.com/Text.aspx?r=faq" target="_blank"&gt;learn more from the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, check out &lt;a href="http://research.microsoft.com/projects/urank/" target="_blank"&gt;the home page&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://urank.viveri.com/signup.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;play around with URank yourself&lt;/a&gt; (feel free to add kip [at] LiveSide [dot] net as a friend).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.liveside.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10602" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/tags/Live+Search/default.aspx">Live Search</category><category domain="http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/tags/MS+Research/default.aspx">MS Research</category><category domain="http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/tags/URank/default.aspx">URank</category></item></channel></rss>