Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites (22 Jan 2004)

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Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites (22 Jan 2004)
Ben Bederson, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, agrees that bookmarks "are pretty hopeless." The concept is flawed, he said, "because it assumes in advance that this is a page that you want to revisit, and you don't always know that."

Software being tested at Microsoft Research takes a stab at solving that problem. Susan Dumais, a senior researcher with Microsoft who is also part of the University of Washington team, has helped develop a program called Stuff I've Seen. The software is designed to help people recall documents like e-mail messages and Web sites through a unified search interface. Keyword search results include related Web sites already visited, regardless of whether they have been bookmarked.

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22next.html?ex=1390194000&en=fc394945f0f548c6&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

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