Yoono is a free software application you can download which combines for the first time the management and sharing of information. Based on pooling user knowledge, yoono is a collaborative search engine and an innovative communication tool.

Yoono’s search results are obtained from the bookmarks of web users. Searces are independent of the user’s language sine yoono does not index keywords on the web but the bookmarks of the users of yoono.

Search results are ordered by popularity. The popularity or audience of a web site is the number of times it has been added to the yoono community for this search. Yoono also offers you a list of experts on the subject of the search. It identifies an expert using the your search – if an expert has published the url in a folder, he is identified in the results by nickname. The experts are ordered by level of expertise which corresponds to the number of users subscribed to the published folder.

When you download yoono, you also participate in yoono’s search results

Tags: collaboration tools, folksonomy, google, information retrieval