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

Yoono was designed to be used by everybody. Very friendly and simple to use, finding sites or experts is easy. But yoono also a powerful tool to manage and share information. As such it is a powerful tool for advanced web users who want to exploit all the resources of the web. While the basic functions are easy to grasp, the user will progress discovering more and more functions as his level increases. An on-line help, guides and suggestions form a permanent help for the user to a better mastery of all yoono’s functions.

yoono, is a new generation search engine...

Web searching can often be tedious. Most search engines return tens or hundreds of pages and generally only the first page is read. How can we be sure that they are the best results? How can we quickly find what we’re looking for without consulting too many web sites ? How can we find who is referencing the pages ? Today the search engines index keywords in web pages. To produce the results, they automatically classify the pages by a clever calculation known as the « page ranking ». This comes from weighing a number of links pointing to and pointed from a page. The real popularity of a web site "its audience" is far from being taken into account...

yoono puts the web user back at the heart of the web.

yoono was born from the desire of its founders to get back the initial spirit of the web. To allow individuals to exchange informations pertinentes, quickly and freely. The web was created to facilitate communication between people, yoono is in the same s’inscrit dans cette démarche.

An expert is a user who has published some of his folders to allow the yoono community to identify him.

By becoming an expert you can make contact with web users who share the same interests.

The number of subscribers to a folder allows you to measure his level of expertise on a subject.

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Yoono is complementary to the classical search engine by bringing a human and community dimension to searching.

Yoono can be compared to "social bookmarking" or "social tagging" services. These are mostly based on the idea of tags (or labels) to allow bookmarks to found and exchanged between users.

From our point of view these solutions depend too much on the language of each user to name the classification labels. This major defect generates sometimes very surprising search results...

Yoono is a new generation of social or collaborative software:

• Yoono frees the user from constraints of language and synonyms.
• Yoono reuses existing data and maintains user habits. The bookmarks of your browser are automatically added to the application and vice versa.
• Yoono has a friendly, productive user interface, hosted on the user’s computer.

Yoono searches by "key-url". If you have no idea of a web site on a theme you’re searching, try using your usual search engine to find the first url.

By clicking on the "suggest" button in your browser, or by copying or drag/dropping it to the yoono application, you will find all the others!

1. yoono will respect user's privacy.
   Yoono does not ask users for any personal information. There are no forms to fill in to register. The application does not require identification or passwordto be used. Data given by the user are used solely for the yoono service and are never divulged to a third pary or used for commercial purposes.
   
   
2. yoono maintains your anonimity.
   Yoono is a collaborative service for searching, managing and sharing information. The bookmarks you publish are in the central yoono database and are open to the yoono community anonymously. At any moment you can make some or all of your folders private. We do not store any other information about you apart from a nickname/login you can optionally define for synchronization purposes.
   
   
3. yoono selects targeted advertising for you
   Yoono's revenues come from advertising. We select the most appropriate ads according to your interests. The adverising should never be intrusive and degrade performance or usability of the service. We may display advertising in the search results, in the news, or with advertising banners. The "advertising" links are clearly identified as such.