Why Research Needs a Dedicated Tool

Search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo are fine for simple searches where you know what you are looking for, but they don't provide much help when you don't.

Complex research is a multi-step, iterative process that includes broadening your knowledge of the domain, identifying new search paths, focusing the search, and selecting a few specific results. This research tool supports this common iterative search behavior and suggests contextually appropriate directions to pursue. Typical search tools don't.

Search engines are designed to fail! Typical search engines bury the user in millions of results, focusing on speed and number of results rather than the relevance of the results. A more user-centered design approach would recognize that research is a cognitive process.

Iterative Search is a research tool designed to support the iterative nature of more complex research tasks. It is not a new search engine but a tool that supports typical user behaviors associated with complex, multi-session, longer-term research efforts.

The tool provides features specifically to support the iterative nature of many searches, such as single-click flagging, visual history and progressive search paths, picking up where you left off, and collaboratively sharing searches with others.

Get more done in less time with fewer, but better results.