As the size of the web keeps growing exponentially and many of us spend more and more time online, finding, refinding and sharing information are increasingly sophisticated tasks. Now you can take care of them all in one tool. I, for one, am fascinated.

Personalized web search

Gravee is a metasearch engine that your personalizes search results. The personalization is based on interests and preferences you might have stated in your account, bookmarking, tagging, and voting activity as well as those of your friends (if you choose to connect to other people on Gravee).

Recommendstions

Looking at your interests and the interests of people who are similar to you, Gravee recommends sites that might be interesting to you, sites that you might never have found otherwise.

Bookmarking

I am a big fan of online bookmarking and I like the way Gravee combines bookmarking with search. I have been waiting for someone to make use of the information from online bookmarking in search ranking. Nsyght tried, but gave it up. Yahoo, amazingly, does not make use of all of the hand picked, categorized and annotated web pages in Delicious (or at least there is no information that they do).

When you set up your Gravee account, or at any time later, you can import bookmarks from your browser or Google, Delicious and Stumbleupon. You can also import links from your Facebook account.

The bookmarks are displayed nicely, with thumbnail previews and link to info on who else likes this site. You can also share your bookmarked sites by email, but unfortunately not by RSS.

More social features

Gravee’s bet is on the social aspect, so there are plenty of social features. You can synch your profile with Facebook, MySpace hi5 or bebo. There are also options for a lot of profile info: In addition to uploading a profile picture, you can add information about your interests, favorite music, movies, and books.

While exploring the bookmaks of others, you can like or dislike their listed sites or add them to your own bookmarks. You can also be a friend or a fan of other Gravee members or send them messages.

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