Step 1 – Install SemantiFind and log
in.
- Go to www.semantifind.com
and choose Sign Up.
- Enter your information, press submit
and wait for a confirmation email.
- Click on the link in the email to activate your
account.
- Download the Toolbar, restart your browser and click on
Start Semantifying.
- Log in with your user name and password and you're ready
to go.
Step 2 – Start searching, just like you always have.
- Start typing in the search bar... you'll get a drop down
list that lets you choose the precise
definition of the term you're typing in:
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- Enter as many terms as you like, selecting definitions
as you go. If you can't find the term you want,
just leave the term undefined – SemantiFind will try to
sort that out later. Defined terms show up in
text "bubbles", undefined ones don't:
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- Press enter, and you'll get both your search engine
search results and results from SemantiFind.
- In the SemantiFind results, you will see pages that have
been added by the SemantiFind community. Once you
and your friends begin adding (Semantifying) pages,
these will also be included in the results and
categorized so you can
see who added them. The SemantiFind results will always
match the exact meaning of the search terms that you
specified.
- The usual search engine results are shown below the
SemantiFind results. SemantiFind (optionally)
grays out search results that don't match the meaning of
the search terms you entered. This feature
can be turned on and off from the "Settings" dialog
under the "Options" menu.
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Step 3 – Semantify pages... your
personal search engine.
- When you find a web page you find interesting just click
on the "Semantify with" button in the toolbar:
- The page will be labeled with your defined search terms.
Later, when you want to find that page again
just type in one or more of the labels in your search
engine and, presto, that page will be in your
SemantiFind results.
- If SemantiFind doesn't have any search terms to label a
page with, or, if you want to change the labels
that will be used, click on "Edit Labels" in the
toolbar.
- SemantiFind will automatically "Semantify" pages which
you seem to show interest in (based on your activity)
so that if you forget or if you are too absorbed in what
you're doing you'll still get those pages in your
results when you search next time.
That's it. Your personal search engine saves
you time and finds more meaningful results and the SemantiFind
community
as a whole brings order and meaning to the web.