• ReadWriteWeb, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:46 AM

Microsoft Research has announced a new seach engine interface that will allow users to personalize, order and share their search results. U Rank lets you reorder your searches, add notes, personalize the results and share them with friends.

U Rank tries to give a new twist to search by focusing on collaboration and sharing. It keeps a history of all your searches, which can be shared if the user desires. It also allows you to add results from one search to another, or create lists of search results, thereby highly personalizing your Web browsing, and sharing all of it with others.

But the service is definitely still in the testing phase. Certain elements take way too long to load, and it is unclear whether other desirable features have simply not been activated yet, or won't be included at all.

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