At the start of March
Google added the ability to star search results. I think this interesting idea may have applications for intranets, allowing faster, better searches and improved content discovery through social bookmarking. These are all good things for improving the value of the intranet.
For those unfamiliar with how his feature works, when you launch a
Google Search you now see unfilled stars next to each result:
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| Google search results now include the option to star results |
If you click one of these unfilled stars, you 'star' the result, which means that when you repeat the same or a similar query, you see starred results at the top of the page:
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| Starred results appear at the top of the results page. I am not sure why my starred result is duplicated here. Google? |
